On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:51:23 -0600, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Remember that although the integrity of public keys needs to be guarded, >their privacy does not. >So it is common to use other secure communications, like publishing the >public key on a https: web page. The issue I have with that is one of trust: In the end, I just have to trust whatever the Root Certification Authority is. Or actually, I have to trust Microsoft to have correctly verified the identity of that RCA and the integrity of the certificate they present, because it is MS that installed that certificate in my browser. (s/MS/Google/g for Chrome...) Cheers, Jantje. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
