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Re: Verisign certificates problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Mar 26 02:12:23 2001

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Date:         Sun, 25 Mar 2001 23:19:36 -0700
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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Elias Levy <aleph1@SECURITYFOCUS.COM> writes:

>Actually checking most of the CA certificates shipped with IE less than half
>have a CPD field. Of the big CA only Entrust seems to use the field.

That's not surprising, they invented and, I believe, patented the thing.

Peter.

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