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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:09:55 -0500 (EST) From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com> Cc: cryptography@c2.net In-Reply-To: <199901251953.AA09739@world.std.com> > The ones that are in the 2020 foresight group, > VeriSign, Microsoft, TC TrustCenter, and Thawte > really ought to have their heads examined or I'm > too dense to get the joke. I suspect that the message here is that they're more worried about user browers popping up "this certificate has expired" messages as happened to Thawte customers with users running slightly old versions of Netscape, than are worried about their certs being cracked. Besides, aren't those certs about equally strong as the ones they certify? If in 2018 someone can fake a cert signed by Microsoft, they can equally well fake the signing cert. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
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