From: cactus@seabsd.hks.net (Todd Masco)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 12:09:54 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: skronk
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In article <9502081137.ZM28317@warp.mcom.com>,
Kipp E.B. Hickman <kipp@warp.mcom.com> wrote:
>You are right here. However, our observation is that an interesting chunk of
>the world is moving towards using X.509 based certificate infrastructures for
>many things. 

AFAIK, the only interesting chunk is those corps that want some form of
"True Name" (and PKP/RSADSI, of course).

Everybody else hates them with a passion.  The Hastur crypto toolkit will
support them, but they'll be viewed as special cases of web-of-trust
signed keys with time-outs.
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