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Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adi Linden)
Fri Dec 5 11:27:17 2003

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:26:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200312051601.hB5G1ips012936@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert
> doesn't provide?

No popup box on the browser asking to accept the certificate.

Adi


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