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Re: Non-Mathmatical Forging of PKI Digital Certificates / Throwing Rocks at the PKI


From: "Timothy J. Miller" <cerebus () SACKHEADS ORG>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:16:34 -0500

Christoph Puppe <christoph.puppe () DEFCOM-SEC COM> writes:

smartcard-enabled company, when the CEO forgets his smartcard at home
are *you* going to tell him that he *must* drive home and get it, or
are you simply going to snatch his private key from escrow and issue
him a temporary card?

  He should fire you if you don't.

        *You* know that and *I* know that, but this is *exactly* the
approach being taken by most private PKI rollouts.

-- Cerebus


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