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Re: Pseudonymous S/MIME certs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Mon Jul 20 11:00:04 1998
From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:27:52 +0800
By the way: are there technical or legal issues preventing someone from
using a personal certificate, issued by Verisign or equivalent, to initiate
a certification chain useable by third parties? The advantage, of course,
would be the inheritance of the trust when the message is received by
popular agents which come with the public keys of those CA's built-in (like
Messenger or Outlook Express).
Another question, specifically for Jeff: are there plans for supporting DSS
and DH certificates in Navigator?
Enzo
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: Enzo Michelangeli <em@who.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: Pseudonymous S/MIME certs?
>You can get free certs from verisign with a 60-day lifetime. They
>are class 1, so the only information that is verified is the email
>address. They ask for lots of information on the enrollment page,
>but it is either optional or not verified.
>
> --Jeff
>
