Getting certificates.

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Sep 3 23:25:13 PDT 2003


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James A. Donald:
> > Outlook and outlook express support digital signing and 
> > encryption -- but one must first get a certificate.
> >
> > Now what I want is a certificate that merely asserts that
> > the holder of the certificate can receive email at such and
> > such an address, and that only one such certificate has
> > been issued for that address.  Such a certification system
> > has very low costs for issuer and recipient, and because it
> > is a nym certificate, no loss of privacy.

Dave Howe
> then generate one. it won't be accepted as legitimate by the
> majority of clients though

That scarcely matters.  Almost no one uses PKI client
certificates.  All client certificates in actual use are
rejected by default, and one always has to explicitly tell the
client to accept. 

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         James A. Donald
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