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Re: Identity Crisis, or "How safe am I?"
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Peter Gutmann
Apr 22, 2012, 8:19:28 AM4/22/12
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Peter Kurrasch <fhw...@gmail.com> writes:
>I noticed the following quote in Peter Gutmann's X.509
>Guide<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt>:
>
> The goal of a cert is to identify the holder of the
> corresponding private key, in a fashion meaningful to
> relying parties.
> -- Stephen Kent
Well, that may have been the intended goal of a cert, but what it actually
provides is the quote below that one:
By the power vested in me, I now declare this text string
and this bit string 'name' and 'key'. What RSA has joined,
let no man put asunder.
-- Bob Blakley
Peter :-).
>I noticed the following quote in Peter Gutmann's X.509
>Guide<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt>:
>
> The goal of a cert is to identify the holder of the
> corresponding private key, in a fashion meaningful to
> relying parties.
> -- Stephen Kent
Well, that may have been the intended goal of a cert, but what it actually
provides is the quote below that one:
By the power vested in me, I now declare this text string
and this bit string 'name' and 'key'. What RSA has joined,
let no man put asunder.
-- Bob Blakley
Peter :-).
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