On 2/19/07, Joseph Oreste Bruni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's funny you mention this: I got into an argument with a > "consultant" about how X.509 certificates are a privacy violation > because your identity is encoded into the "subject" field. I kept > asking him, "How would you know whose cert. it is without it?" At any > rate, there are lot of bozos in the world posing as "security > experts" who shouldn't be taken seriously.
(Its not clear (to me) from the above what was "the bozo" saying: that the certificates _are_ or _are not_ a privacy violation?) I find it very interesting that Phil Zimmemann, who invented WOT, apparently realizes that times are changing, and that WOT has outlived its usefullness; specifically because - unlike perhaps at the time of birth of PGP - trafic analysis is a threat that may be naively ignored only in geek kindergartens, but not in the real life. NikNot _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
