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Re: PKI Research Workshop '04, CFP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Smith)
Wed Oct 22 10:37:07 2003

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To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:58:10 +1300."
             <200310220658.h9M6wAE13596@cs.auckland.ac.nz> 
From: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Reply-To: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:24:17 -0400


>(To those people who missed the original comment a year or two back, the first
> PKI workshop required that people use plain passwords for the web-based
> submission system due to the lack of a PKI to handle the task).

Hey, but at least the password was protected by an SSL channel,
which was authenticated by a real certificate signed by one of
the 10^4 trust roots built into your browser :)

---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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