At 9:42 AM -0400 8/25/05, Trei, Peter wrote: >Self-signed certs are only useful for showing that a given >set of messages are from the same source - they don't provide >any trustworthy information as to the binding of that source >to anything.
Oddly enough, the same could be said for a hierarchically signed certificate. ;-) Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
