Re: [Asrg] A method to eliminate spam

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:12:22 EST, Kee Hinckley said:

> A .com cert goes for $99 semi-wholesale.  QuickCerts are even 
> cheaper.  That would be a per-year cost.  Not too bad.
And how much do said certs prove?  What verification does QuickCert do to
make sure that they're issuing a cert to an actually identified user?

At $100 a pop, what's stopping spammers and other miscreants from getting
bogus certs?

> As for the encryption hit.  A lot of sites are already using TLS and 
> self-signed certs.  I use it for the hundreds of messages I 
> download/send every day, and other sites that support it use it 
> connecting to my server.  Not a huge cost.
As I said, it's not a hit when you're doing several hundred pieces of mail
a day.  You do several hundred thousand, you'll be wanting an SSL card.. ;)

(And yes, I have a listserv box that cranks about 500K msgs/day, and it will
do SSL with a self-signed cert if the other end says STARTTLS.  Not many
sites do.)

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