On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:57:56 CST, Max Valdez said: > After all, there are revocation certificates if our key is stolen isnt it ?? > So you need the worm to be fast if you want to use a stolen key. Actually, most things that use X.509-style PKI do a really piss-poor job of supporting a CRL (which is why CERT had to issue an advisory when somebody got a bogus Microsoft certificate). (Hint - figure out when/how IE will find out that the SSL cert for the website you're visiting has been revoked (as opposed to expired)). Over on the PGP side, things aren't much better - first the user has to discover the compromise of the private key and post a key revocation to the various public keyservers, and then people need to re-check their keyrings for new signatures on a regular basis...
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