why OpenPGP is preferable to S/MIME (Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick)

[Adam Shostack]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:10:01PM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
| Certificate authorities also can forge certificates and issue
| certificates in fake names if asked by government agencies.  S/MIME is
| too much under central control by design to be a sensible choice for
| general individual use.

So what if we create the Cypherpunks Root CA, which (either) signs
what you submit to it via a web page, or publish the secret key?

We then get the Cypherpunks Root CA key added to the browsers--it
can't be that hard, the US postal service managed it...

Adam


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