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Re: The purpose of this mailing list

1997-09-11 14:32:42
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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:56:06 +0100, Ian Brown wrote:

Here's an ideal opportunity to tie both of these threads
together. A next generation keyserver could store multiple keys
for a user, but be able to specify their preferred one. This
would allow both selection of algorithm and preferred key for
receiving correspondence, while allowing other keys needed to
check signatures etc. to be retrieved if necessary.


This is the best idea yet.  It kills 2 bird with one stone.
This approach would suggest a requirement for certificate
structures.

BTW, I've seen some messages regarding X.509 certificates posted
(both pro and con).  I guess my feeling is that whatever we
develop should be flexible enough to work with a variety of
public key management schemes.  Large organizations are probably
going to benefit from hierarchical certificate management
offered by a X.509.  However, the level of infrastructure
required can be very hard to bootstrap.  I would not want either
side of this issue to become a barrier to Open-PGP acceptance.
Thus I think our trust model should be flexible enough to
embrace X.509 and web-of-trust.

Chris



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