CDR: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

[Bram Cohen]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:

> Lynn.Wheeler at firstdata.com wrote:
> > 
> > In any case, the domain name infrastructure has been looking at ways to beef up
> > the integrity of its operation ... like having public keys registered as part of
> > domain name registration.
> 
> How on Earth does that help? The key is already strongly linked to the
> domain name - registering it with NetSol (for example) does nothing
> interesting except to create another spurious revenue stream for NetSol.

As opposed to the spurious revenue stream for Verisign?

-Bram Cohen