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Re: Global PKI on DNS?

2002-06-14 07:35:59
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 on Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:08:49 -0400, "John Stracke" 
<jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com> said:

jstracke> >The CERT extension to DNS allows to place there a URI, a
jstracke> >URI is smaller than a cert and stays in a udp packet.
jstracke>
jstracke> Bootstrap problem: how can you trust the results of the URI?

The same way I trust whatever certificate source I have; not at all.
But from a PKI point of view, that's beside the point, as long as you
can to path discovery and validation all the way between the
certificate I want to verify and a set of root certificates you trust.

So the bootstrap problem is the same regardless of your certificate
source: you need a set of trusted root certificates.

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