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Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

From: Adi Linden <adil () adis on ca>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:28:05 -0600 (CST)


While the ssl certificate is meant to verify the owners identity, as a 
consumer I would never trust a ssl certificate for that purpose. It does 
provide a reasonable effort to keep information between me and the server 
confidential. That's worth something, I guess.

Adi

Current thread:

Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Bob Beck (Dec 04)
- Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Adi Linden (Dec 05)
  - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Bob Beck (Dec 05)
  - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Adi Linden (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Mark Foster (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Deepak Jain (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Peter Galbavy (Dec 05)
    - Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care? Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 05)

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