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Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Sep 11 22:09:28 2011

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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:08:45 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Mike Jones <mike@mikejones.in>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mike Jones <mike@mikejones.in> wrote:
> EV certificates have a
> different status and probably still need the CA model

what's the real benefit of an EV cert? (to the service owner, not the
CA, the CA benefit is pretty clearly $$)

-chris
(I've never seen the value in EV or even DV certs really... so I'm
actually curious what the value other see in them is)


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