17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"ao" == Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net> writes: ao> On the December issue of Scientific American there is an article ao> by Thomas Beth, "Confidential Communication on the Internet". ao> Lite on the technical side but good reading anyway. This seemed to be a duplication of an X.509 certificate hierarchy: ``Hey, I don't know who you are but you have a seals which go back to a CA I trust.'' In this respect the information seemed unworthy of an article in SA. Perhaps I did not read the article closely enough? michael