Full Disclosure: Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

[Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>]

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 02:57:12AM +0200, yossarian said:
> What I wonder - will Verisign have set up CRL servers yet? Remember the IE
> problem when someone got hold of MS certificates? The MS-fix was
> blacklisting them locally, the real problem was that there was no revocation
> servers. Then again, how many concurrent connections would they get if MS
> sent out a critical update?
>
> So - stick to PGP - forget about PKI.
Pardon me if a clue whizzed by while I was working, but I read this as
"PKI doesn't have any way to guarantee ad-hoc revocation of a
certificate, so stick to PGP, which also doesn't have any way to
guarantee ad-hoc revocation of a certificate".


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