Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
> At 3:30 PM -0700 8/9/07, Lucy Lynch wrote:
>> Really nit-picky question:
>
> Really nit-picky is quite appropriate at this juncture!
>
>> do you really mean "to begin" or would "in" work... as in:
>>
>> "A trust anchor is a public key and associated data used by a relying
>> party in the process of validating a signature on a signed object."
>
> I really meant "to begin" because these are trust anchors, not keys
> that might appear in the middle of a validation chain. For example,
> assume you are trying to validate key A, which chains to key B, which
> chains to key C, which chains to key D which you trust inherently.
> Only key D is a trust anchor. Key B and key C are used "in the process
> of validating".
>
How about "to complete" ?
Cheers Leif
