RE: Policy Mechanisms

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RE: Policy Mechanisms

2005-07-27 11:11:54

To use a CA of any sort, the sender needs to obtain a certificate  
from a CA trusted by the recipient's email handling application.


This is not true.

Certificates were only introduced by Lauren Kohnfelder in his '79 MSc
thesis. XKMS is a key centric PKI as is the MIT PGP key server as was
Whitt Diffie's original directory proposal in New Directions.

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