23 May
2002
23 May
'02
4:03 p.m.
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:10:01PM +0100, Adam Back wrote: | Certificate authorities also can forge certificates and issue | certificates in fake names if asked by government agencies. S/MIME is | too much under central control by design to be a sensible choice for | general individual use. So what if we create the Cypherpunks Root CA, which (either) signs what you submit to it via a web page, or publish the secret key? We then get the Cypherpunks Root CA key added to the browsers--it can't be that hard, the US postal service managed it... Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume