Site certificates?

Adam Shostack adam at lighthouse.homeport.org
Thu Feb 29 15:41:43 PST 1996


GTE has announced, `Cybertrust` but I don't know if its operational or
not.  MCI Mall and AT&T also offer certificates.

The unfortunate fact is that at the moment, getting a certificate from
someone Netscape has decided to trust makes your customers life much
easier, because they never have to decide to trust your key.  Thus,
Verisign, MCI mall and AT&T have a large commercial advantage waiting
for Netscape to tell the world what criteria they use for selecting
KCA to trust.

Adam


Kevin L Prigge wrote:

| David K. Merriman said:
| >
| > Can someone point me in the direction of who I need to talk to in
| order to get security certificates for a Web server I'm setting up? I
| sent email to MS and Netscape, and neither has deigned to respond in 4
| days....     
| >
| > Thanks
| >
| > Dave Merriman
| 
| VeriSign does that. http://www.verisign.com/
| (They're slow, though)
| 
| --
| Kevin L. Prigge         | "You can always spot a well informed man -
| University of Minnesota |  his views are the same as yours."
| email: klp at tc.umn.edu   |  - Ilka Chase
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| 


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