Cypherpunk Certification Authority

Adam Shostack adam at lighthouse.homeport.org
Sat Nov 25 13:09:38 PST 1995



| C) Don't settle for less than X.509 ver 3, because this allows the 
| certificate to carry within it a reference to the location of the CRL 
| list.  Use that feature.

	Does X.509 version 3 fix the problem that Ross Anderson points
out in his 'Robustness Principles' paper? (Crypto '95 proceedings, or
ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/robustness.ps.Z)

	Its an excellent paper, well worth reading, but the basic
problem is that X.509 encrypts before signing.

Adam

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