Re: Certificate Authorities

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

An outside CA can be useful if that CA is willing to offload liability 
for you.  In other words, will they pay you if they've issued a
certificate incorrectly?  If not, do you want to rely on them?

Adam

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:25:34AM -0700, Joe Ippolito wrote:
| Is the expense of having an outside source provide CA keys for my organization justified if I properly protect my own 
CA server on-site?.
| 
| Thanks for your input.

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