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Pseudonymous S/MIME certs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sun Jul 19 22:52:32 1998
From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:57:27 -0700
[Back after massive hardware problems].
With S/MIME increasing in popularity, there has come about a need for
pseudonymous S/MIME keys/certs.
Some CA's, such as Thawte, will issue free S/MIME certs. But even Thawte
still requires you to provide your DOB and SSN. It seems that there
currently is no obvious way for a user of, say Outlook Express, to obtain an
S/MIME cert for a nym.
If you know of an online enrollment site that doesn't require any
verification whatsoever, I'd like to hear about it. If not, then it seems it
is time to create such a site.
Furthermore, I understand that it is possible to emulate PGP-style WOT with
S/MIME. Is there key management software that implements this functionality?
If not, somebody might
Thanks,
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
PGP 5.x encrypted email preferred
