Ian Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ***********************************
Horst Herb wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:04, Tim Churches wrote: > > >>Two problems with this. There is no such thing as "our government". [snip] >>collective consciousness is a bit naive. > > > Each body consists of multiple organs, each organ of lots of fairly [snip] > opinion. > > Likewise, I'd say our government is very, very sick and in this case I think > the analogy is perfectly valid and very much to the point. IMHO you're both missing the point: personally I wouldn't use a private key generated by either of you, that's got nothing to do with competence. The fact is, even if HeSA, HealthLink, et al., were computing super-geniuses all running OpenBSD, someday, someone is going to crack their system. They've chosen a system were our security is dependent on theirs (however good), but they could have easily chosen one where it isn't. The problem is, they don't trust *us* ;-) ************************************************ Not missing that point either - I am on the record as saying that only self-generated indvidual keys are acceptable - no matter how technically competent the CA/RA. I was not defending or apologising for what HeSA do at the moment - merely pointing out the lack of a relationship between that and what the NSW Police Force Web admin does. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
