Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> I would rather think that one should stress the need for exact time if
> any verification will be done correctly.
It's already mandantory for some PKIs.
> It's pretty tough for
> winblows users, because they are often not educated on this, but if
> it's voiced as a crucial need today by many, we might see time
> syncronisity (sp?) as a standard in windows and whatnot in a couple of
> years.
At least in a company's networks it's not a big deal to synchronize
the time of Windows work stations within e.g. a NT domain. Average
Joe at home behind his dial-up modem line will not use OCSP anyway.
Ciao, Michael.
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