[65701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Dec 5 11:31:12 2003
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:28:00 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200312051601.hB5G1ips012936@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes on 12/5/2003 11:01 AM:
>
> So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert
> doesn't provide?
Less headaches handling hundreds of support tickets that basically say
"browser displayed an alert about the cert being self signed", with or
without 2 MB bitmap screenshots of the same?
srs
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