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Re: Verisign CRL single point of failure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Wed Mar 31 22:51:20 2004

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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:52:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: "rah@shipwright.com" <rah@shipwright.com>,
	"cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <200401100216.i0A2GRE08339@cs.auckland.ac.nz>

>   I'm not sure what the "no longer
>   dynamically changing" means, I assume they've made it even worse by giving
>   it a much larger expiry period, so your online check gives you the status
>   from last year instead of last week.

It means that they learned the lesson when the erroneously issued
two MSFT certificates:
        In the future, VRSN patches will be issued as MSFT
        software updates.

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Rich Salz                  Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology       http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway  http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview      http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html

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