CDR: Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

[Bram Cohen]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 Lynn.Wheeler at firstdata.com wrote:

> the other scenerio that some certification agencies have expressed (i.e.
> licensing bureaus, bbb, consumer report, etc operations) is that in the online
> world ... that they would provide an online service .... rather than
> certificates designed for an offline world.

Yes, it seems fairly well established that revocations just plain don't
work.

Once again, the solution to the problems of offline operation appears to
be online operation.

-Bram Cohen