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Re: PGP, Inc.



At 5:48 PM 5/10/96, Dan Weinstein wrote:
>On Fri, 10 May 1996 10:22:24 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>The only effort they make is that when using the email-based CA, it mails
>>the certificate to the address within, so it's not trivial to get a cert
>>for an address that you don't have access to. (I'm not saying it's
>>impossible, or even hard, just that it requires some skill and effort).
>
>I don't believe this is correct.  They send you information after you
>have created the cert verifying that you set it up, but nothing
>requires a response and the key is transfered via http.

If you'll examine my message, you'll see I was referring to the email-based
S/MIME class 1 CA.

Best,
 - Tim Dierks

Tim Dierks  --  [email protected]  --  www.consensus.com
Head of Thing-u-ma-jig Engineering, Consensus Development