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Re: Global PKI on DNS?

2002-06-14 11:04:55
In a system 
like DNS which makes clear who is authoritative for which names, I 
don't think the term "trust" is applicable, and that is the crux of 
our disagreement.

The problem is that, although the owner of the domain is authoritative
for who gets to use which name, that doesn't mean their users want
them to issue certificates.  The first requires that the owner trusts
the users; the second requires that the users trust the owner.  And
trust is not symmetric.

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|John Stracke                    |Principal Engineer     |
|jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com   |Incentive Systems, Inc.|
|http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own.|
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