CDR: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

[Ben Laurie]

Bram Cohen wrote:
> 
> 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?

Like I said: how does that help? Moving spurious revenue streams around
gets us nowhere.

Cheers,

Ben.

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