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Re: Pseudonymous S/MIME certs?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Mon Jul 20 15:07:20 1998

Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:36:56 -0700
From: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
To: cryptography@c2.net

The verisign class 1-4 hierarchies require cert chaining.  I think some of the
other CAs do now too.  All netscape products have supported chaining for years.
I'd think that most support chaining by now too.

	--Jeff


Ben Laurie wrote:
> Technical: I don't know whether enough products actually support cert
> chains (admittedly I've never tested it, but since they are almost never
> used in real life, I rather doubt anyone else has either).

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