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Subject: Re: $90 for high assurance _versus_ $349 for low assurance
Date: 16 Mar 2005 23:17:59 -
From: John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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John, thanks fo
Ian G wrote:
> In the below, John posted a handy dandy table of cert prices, and
> Nelson postulated that we need to separate high assurance from low
> assurance. Leaving aside the technical question of how the user
> gets to see that for now, note how godaddy charges $90 for their
> high assuranc
In two separate replies (one public, one private), Peter Gutmann wrote:
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Subject: Re: $90 for high assurance _versus_ $349 for low assurance
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:23:49 +1300
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann)
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
In the below, John posted a handy dandy table of cert prices, and Nelson
postulated that we need to separate high assurance from low assurance.
Leaving aside the technical question of how the user gets to see that for
now, note how godaddy cha
Original Message
Subject: Re: $90 for high assurance _versus_ $349 for low assurance
Date: 13 Mar 2005 22:33:56 -
From: John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Does anyone have a v
Ian G wrote:
Does anyone have a view on what "low" and "high" means in this
context? Indeed, what does "assurance" mean?
I'll say it again, I feel it's possible to handle this based on the
amount of checking a CA does, after all if someone wanted to do a
serious attack on a system they will have
In the below, John posted a handy dandy table of cert prices, and
Nelson postulated that we need to separate high assurance from low
assurance. Leaving aside the technical question of how the user
gets to see that for now, note how godaddy charges $90 for their
high assurance and Verisign charges
