Peter Gutmann
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:08:08 -0700
[Moderator's note: I'm letting just this one through, because I think Peter's point bears repeating. --Perry] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >IT departments put corporate trusted CA certificates in employees computers. >The US DoD puts their trusted root certificates in DoD computers. All these >actions copy trust with high fidelity. They don't copy any trust at all, they copy a (usually expensive) cryptographic cookie that turns off browser warning messages. (They do copy the cookies with high fidelity though, if one bit is corrupted then the cookie becomes invalid). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]