NODE ceccce01Re: Post Office to act as CA, creator of keys
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:37:16 -0700 (PDT)
Are the people at C2Net really this clueless, or is this a joke?
Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com> writes:
...
> >Who in their right mind would *trust* the Post Office to act as a CA?
>
> Have been trying to think of a legitimate reason for the CA to generate keys,
> instead of the end-user; haven't come up with one yet. ...
To keep a copy, obviously.
> The database description doesn't list the private keys among the data that
> the Post Office plans to retain.
Let me see if I follow the C2Net shill's logic:
USPS generates my public/private pair of keys.
USPS doesn't list the private keys as the data USPS plans to retain
Therefore I can assume that they won't retain it.
I guess this fits with everything else C2Net's been doing and saying.
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