Re: Verisign certificates problem

[Wham Bang <wham_bang () YAHOO COM>]

Peter Gutmann <pgut001 () CS AUCKLAND AC NZ> wrote:
> Elias Levy <aleph1 () SECURITYFOCUS COM> writes:
>
> > Actually checking most of the CA certificates shipped with IE
> > less than half have a CPD field. Of the big CA only Entrust
> > seems to use the field.
>
> That's not surprising, they invented and, I believe, patented
> the thing.

Correct.  And then, in the interest of standardization, offered
free licensing of the patent - an offer which was taken up by
many companies, including Verisign.  You'd think they'd be using
it by now...

> From a quick search of Entrust's Web site, one finds:
- http://www.entrust.com/news/files/04_23_98.htm  (free license)
- http://www.entrust.com/news/files/11_02_98.htm  (Microsoft,
  Verisign et al license)


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