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Re: [Asrg] Email Certification Path Proposal

2003-03-11 09:49:28
On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 15:20 Europe/London, Vernon Schryver wrote:

1) There exists a PKI. In this case, the sender just uses S/MIME or PGP or whatever, and all the intermediaries need do *NOTHING*. This message is PGP signed - if you want you can validate it via the PGP web-of-trust....

If there is a PKI, you've still got nothing.  Spammers can and must
be allowed to buy certs too.  Authentication is not authorization.

With authentication you've got something though - a much stronger ability to blacklist.

Matt.

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