Tom Weinstein wrote: | > Unless VeriSign includes in the price of the Global ID cert a bond | > that will compensate the buyer of a Global ID based commerce system | > for any and all future losses caused by VeriSign either revoking or | > refusing to renew a cert (fat chance), anyone basing their strategy on | > having such a cert is at risk of losing their business. | | I fail to see the problem. Right now, if you want to communicate | securely with exportable web browsers, this is the only way to do it. | Either you do it, or you don't. If VeriSign doesn't renew your cert, | then you're right back where you were the previous year. Nope, you've now got thousands of upset customers who were using secure communications, and are now using cheesy exportable ciphers. (Hopefully, you wrote CGI so you can quickly switch to using Stronghold. :) Adam -- He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.