Re: X.BlaBla in PGP??? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 7:36 AM -0500 on 3/6/00, Eric S. Johansson wrote:


> it will be as soon as VeriSign finishes purchasing Thawte and
> VeriSign makes its monopoly on certificates effectively complete.

Of course, what they have a monopoly *on*, exactly, is left to the clueful
as an exercise. :-).

> On the
> other hand, I could go ahead and build my own certification authority which
> makes my certificates cryptographically correct but still effectively
> useless because nobody can verify the root CA certificate.

Right. See above. :-).


Cheers,
RAH
Who does admit that Phill is *fun* when he has his panties in a bunch like
this...

(...and who still likes Phill, personally, for some wierd reason, despite
his occasional wearing of the flag(s) of state(s) like some kind of
Hudson's Bay blanket...)
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