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Re: key flags -- what do they mean?

1999-03-15 04:16:18
* Adam Back wrote:
We have 3 flags (two are just variations on encryption):

1) CA
2) sign
3) encrypt

Jon said just now:
| constraints." These are ways that the CA can describe its
| certification.  Lutz, for example, needs these for his CA business

To clear this: CA means 'Certification', such a key is allowed to sign other
keys. 'sign' mean 'Signature creation', such a key is allowed to sign non
key material.

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