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Re: PGP kerserver infrastructure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Sat Jul 1 19:38:47 2000

Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 19:36:45 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 02:43:51PM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote:
>=20
> And to expound upon this a little, CAs have artificially set PGP up as a
> competitor to their existance. CAs could easily embrace PGP and offer PGP
> services along with S/MIME and TLS. They choose not to, since PGP makes
> CAs optional (not obsolute, however).

Thawte, in fact, does.  They only support RSA, however.


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