From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 06:56:36 CDT
In <20011009131303.I8798@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
>I've answered this so many times, I am surprised you've missed it.
>The keys are in certificates, they are included with the article itself.
>All you need to install (or in fact all your news software author includes
>if you trust him or her) is the set of root CA keys you wish to trust.
No Way! It is just too complicated as the basic mechanism and, as I
already explained in response to Andrew, is quite impracticable for
cancels - certainly for single ones.
What is actually needed is a distributed database containing useful keys,
certificates, revocations, etc. The present PGP key servers are NOT
particularly suitable for this, but I could imagine a database that was
maintained by the Usenet progagation mechanism, using certain moderated
groups, and maybe the Replaces or Named-Article facility.
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