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Re: Certificate requests for encryption keys

1999-06-26 20:53:59

    >[...]   and since I'm pretty picky about 
    >doing things the way PKIX requires the only way they could get
    >self-issued certs to work is to make everyone a CA.
    
    Time for a dumb question, if I may.
    
    What is the problem with this?

My colleague Don Davis & I have discussed this as early as
1996, see http://world.std.com/~dtd/scca/smartcard_ca.ps

In my view, there is nothing wrong and much right...

--dan


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