Hello All,
On 24-9-2000 1:29:02, Oliver wrote:
O> Anyway, if there's an advantage to S/MIME, it might be that I can
O> trust someone's key if it's signed by a known authority. With PGP,
O> there's a lot of hassle to get my own key signed by some folks who are
O> widely-known, and there still might be someone who doesn't trust it,
O> anyway. Personally, I don't usually exchange encrypted mail with
O> people I don't know, but if I did, I'd be grateful for a central
O> authority. A notary (is that the word for that kind of lawyer?)
O> wouldn't be the same, either.
Here's some information from Thawte (www.thawte.com).
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The Web of Trust is a unique, community-driven certification system
based on face-to-face ID validation on a peer-to-peer basis. It's a
"bottom-up" CA, compared to traditional "top-down" CA systems. You can
be notarized, and then you in turn can act as a notary and certify the
identity of your friends! FREE ID certification service!
Certify your friends and colleagues Accumulate Trust Points for
e-commerce Sign your mail with a certificate containing your full name
Directory of Notaries spans the globe Encompasses many different
certification systems Read more about the web of trust To join the web
of trust you need to be enrolled in the free Thawte Personal
Certification System. You can join the web of trust today by finding a
Web of Trust Notary near you in the Directory of Notaries, or signing
up to be notarized directly by a Thawte employee on one of our
Notarization Tours.
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Here in the Netherlands most of the so called "Web of Trust Notary"
are free of charge.
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Fred
The Netherlands
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