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To: "John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com>
cc: ietf <ietf@ietf.org>, isdf@isoc.org, Key Distribution <keydist@cafax.se>, openssl-users@openssl.org
From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:57:52 -0400
In-reply-to: (Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:13:51 EDT.") <OF0F8D4CAB.B14112E7-ON85256BD6.006EB01F@incentivesystems.com>
Sender: owner-keydist@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Global PKI on DNS?

> >We're already trusting chains of signficant length (i.e. DNS delegation)
> >with no decent verification at all.
> 
> That's a good point.  PKI on DNS might not be the most trustworthy system
> imaginable, but it would probably be an improvement over no PKI.  Provided
> it doesn't break DNS...

and also provided people don't say "hey, now there's a PKI, so I really can 
trust it!"

Keith

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