[11093] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Smith)
Fri Jul 12 11:00:54 2002
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, cypherpunks@lne.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:48:27 PDT."
<3D2C574B.24790.3446484@localhost>
From: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Reply-To: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:16:19 -0400
>IE comes preloaded with about 34 root certificate authorities, and
>it is easy for the end user to add more, to add more in batches.
A colleague of mine just loaded a new root into IE, and pointed
out that when one does this, the new root is apparently BY DEFAULT
enabled for all purposes, including some interesting ones
like "Digital Rights" and "Windows System Component Verification."
I just tried this, and it appears to be the case. (But I haven't
yet tried to see whether Windows will happily use my root for these
OS-specific purposes....)
--Sean
--
Sean W. Smith, Ph.D. sws@cs.dartmouth.edu
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/ (has ssl link to pgp key)
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA
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