In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Bush writes:
>
>> I believe a web of trust can be operationally feasible only if the web
>> is more like a forest - if there are several well known examples of
>> "tops" to the web. Otherwise, you have to be storing a plethora of
>> different signers' certificates to be able to validate all the
>> institution's certificates that come in.
>
>you need those certs to verify the live data anyway
>
Right. The real issue is the trust determination -- how do you know
that the certificate corresponds to something resembling reality
(whatever that is)?
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
