Re: S/MIME and web of trust (was Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick)

2002-05-27 Thread Peter Gutmann
Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Additionally, there is nothing that prevents one from issuing certs that can be used to sign other certs. Sure, there are key usage bits etc but its possible to ignore them. It should be possible to create a PGP style web of trust using X.509 certs, given

Re: S/MIME and web of trust (was Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick)

2002-05-25 Thread Adam Back
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:40:36PM -0700, Eric Murray wrote: Additionally, there is nothing that prevents one from issuing certs that can be used to sign other certs. Sure, there are key usage bits etc but its possible to ignore them. The S/MIME aware MUAs do not ignore the trust delegation

S/MIME and web of trust (was Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick)

2002-05-24 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:17:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 23 May 2002 at 0:24, Lucky Green wrote: Tell me about it. PGP, GPG, and all its variants need to die before S/MIME will be able to break into the Open Source community, thus removing the last, but persistent,