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Re: About User-ID's

2001-08-20 10:43:20

Who said it was necessary.  I was only suggesting it as one approach.
One of the benefits we can get by leveraging DNS is that key service
can be distributed.

-derek

Michael Helm <helm(_at_)fionn(_dot_)es(_dot_)net> writes:

Derek Atkins writes:
One solution would be to put PGP Keys (Certificates) into DNS.  Then
you could easily lookup a key based on the userID, but you have to
already KNOW the userID.  Unfortunately this doesn't help you lookup
a key by KeyID.

Why is it necessary to put certs into dns in order to accomplish
this end?

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord(_at_)MIT(_dot_)EDU                        PGP key available

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