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Re: John Kelsey's post re Protocols Workshop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saso Tomazic)
Tue Apr 15 11:18:53 1997
From: "Saso Tomazic" <Sasot@lkn-pc1.fer.uni-lj.si>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:55:22 +1
Reply-to: saso.tomazic@fe.uni-lj.si
In-reply-to: <199704150442.VAA00678@crypt.hfinney.com>
Bill Frantz, frantz@netcom.com, writes:
> There is nothing preventing a CA from issuing a cert for any key it can
> download from a public key server.
It depends on how the CA is organized. If a key is certified on the
basis of a contract beetwen key ownera and the CA, which is keept on
two different fire resistant places, and if this contract states
also, that any cert issued by the CA (with all legal
responsibility) is based on an equivalent contract, than the CA can
not certifie without such contract without risk of beeing sued for
the damage made with such key.
Saso
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