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Re: [IETF-PKIX] Multiple certificates for same key?



    >>>>> "David" == David P Kemp <dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil> writes:

     David> Tony's characterization is eloquent enough that it cannot be
     David> improved upon, but merely restated.  By following the "wallet
     David> and paper signature" model and having a single public key
     David> which announces "This Is Me!", users would be voluntarily
     David> adopting the very thing they refuse to have imposed upon them
     David> externally: a national ID.

    That it true if one were to adopt a restriction that any particular
    user MUST have exactly one key.  But I don't believe that has been
    proposed.

yeah, here we go again.  if the name and the key
don't have many to many mappings, you lose liberty.

--dan