CDR: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...
Bram Cohen
bram at gawth.com
Sat Nov 18 14:33:10 PST 2000
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Lynn.Wheeler at firstdata.com wrote:
> >
> > In any case, the domain name infrastructure has been looking at ways to beef up
> > the integrity of its operation ... like having public keys registered as part of
> > domain name registration.
>
> How on Earth does that help? The key is already strongly linked to the
> domain name - registering it with NetSol (for example) does nothing
> interesting except to create another spurious revenue stream for NetSol.
As opposed to the spurious revenue stream for Verisign?
-Bram Cohen
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