Hi Ron,
On 19 July 2000 at 22:17:00 GMT -0400 (which was 03:17 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
of "S/MIME without Revealing Personal Data":
RM> I looked at thawte.com's site and they ask for a lot of personal
RM> information to provide a certificate.
RM> Is it possible to use TB's new S/MIME support for encryption
RM> without having to give age, social security number, etc.?
That information does not appear in the signature AFAIK. IMHO that
information would be held against your key at Thawte. The whole point
of a key system that certifies you to be who you say you are is that
you *must* /absolutely/ identify yourself to the authority issuing the
certificate. Without that, the trust in the certificates they issue
just collapses.
RM> All I would like to be able to do is encrypt messages, not have
RM> the message certify who I am in person.
Then I would suggest that you should use PGP encryption.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
Marck D. Pearlstone, Consultant Software Engineer
Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA
www: http://www.silverstones.com
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