PGP, Inc.

Dan Weinstein dan at vplus.com
Sat May 11 00:49:55 PDT 1996


On Fri, 10 May 1996 10:22:24 -0700, timd at consensus.com wrote:
>
>The only effort they make is that when using the email-based CA, it mails
>the certificate to the address within, so it's not trivial to get a cert
>for an address that you don't have access to. (I'm not saying it's
>impossible, or even hard, just that it requires some skill and effort).

I don't believe this is correct.  They send you information after you
have created the cert verifying that you set it up, but nothing
requires a response and the key is transfered via http.


Dan Weinstein
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No.        
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