From: michael shiplett <walrus@ans.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 00:45:25 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SA: Confidential Communication on the Internet
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"ao" == Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net> writes:

ao> On the December issue of Scientific American there is an article
ao> by Thomas Beth, "Confidential Communication on the Internet".
ao> Lite on the technical side but good reading anyway.

  This seemed to be a duplication of an X.509 certificate hierarchy:
``Hey, I don't know who you are but you have a seals which go back to
a CA I trust.'' In this respect the information seemed unworthy of an
article in SA.

Perhaps I did not read the article closely enough?

michael