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Re: PKIs and trust

2003-12-15 02:46:57
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| I think Keith has mixed up authentication with authorization.  It is
| true that I will only trust certain people in certain ways.  But whether
| those certain people are who they are, and whether a message from is in
| fact from them, is something we can determine with PKIs.  That having
| been said, they still don't work.
|
| Why?  Because nobody actually has the patience for them, so far as I can
|  tell.  CRLs are not managed at ALL on the Internet, and so far as I
| know, every Tom, Dick, and Jane will ignore PKI warnings.


Actually I think it may be said that pki's confuse a with a.
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