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IP: Re: Two security related articles: [risks] Risks Digest 21.30
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:18:18 -0500
To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: Two security related articles: [risks] Risks Digest 21.30 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:46:56 -0500 From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo () ccr org> the nasty little truth being brought to light by the Verisign mess is that while PKI works fine on the white board, it actually doesn't work in the real world. that nasty little verification operation gets slower and slower and slower with each addition to the CRL, and the network traffic goes up and up and up doing it. the sooner people realize that Public Key just won't work at any kind of scale the sooner we get on with doing something different cheers -mo
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