Cowles, Robert D. wrote:
Trusted third parties that cannot be trusted!! Why are we bothering with them? Building a whole trust infrastructure on untrusted TTPs is a pointless exercise in futility.
Yes ... well, it was pointed out at the last EUgridPMA meeting that the VO's go thru almost the exact same process to register people ... so what value did the CA's provide?
Well if its a Thawte cert, precisely none. As I have said before, the purpose of a CA is to authenticate a user's right to use a claimed name, and then bind that to his public key ie. to certify the key to name binding. ie., a certification authority. It is not, I repeat not, to be a naming authority. regards David
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