[65696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adi Linden)
Fri Dec 5 10:28:57 2003
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:28:05 -0600 (CST)
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
To: Bob Beck <beck@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200312050152.hB51qeWe024758@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
While the ssl certificate is meant to verify the owners identity, as a
consumer I would never trust a ssl certificate for that purpose. It does
provide a reasonable effort to keep information between me and the server
confidential. That's worth something, I guess.
Adi
