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bank consortium to form CA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Wed Oct 21 20:36:13 1998
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:04:33 -0400
According to the Wall Street Journal (online WSJ subscribers can see
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB908925664656288500.htm), eight
banks -- Bank of America, Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Bankers Trust,
ABN Amro Bank NV, Barclay's PLC, Deutsche Bank AG, and Hypo Vereinsbank AG
-- are forming a certificate authority consortium. According to the
article, the real thing holding back Internet commerce is the lack
of identity-based certificates... On a brighter note, these certificates
are supposed to embedded on smart cards.
