Re: Global PKI on DNS?

To: David Conrad <david.conrad at nominum.com>
Subject: Re: Global PKI on DNS?
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall at ehsco.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:29:27 -0500
Cc: John Stracke <jstracke at incentivesystems.com>, ietf <ietf at ietf.org>, isdf at isoc.org, Key Distribution <keydist at CAFAX.SE>, openssl-users at openssl.org
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on 6/11/2002 11:01 PM David Conrad said the following:

> Why would anyone care about root or TLD _certificates_?

Uhh, because it was requested:

 on 6/8/2002 8:22 AM Franck Martin said the following:

 | The root servers would share the ROOT Certificates and would sign a
 | certificate to each .org .com .net .fr,... managers of this domains...

Other people have given other reasons why this won't work. I'm giving my
reason why it won't work. What people do with their own servers and zones
is fine by me but I'd rather they not crap on the root and TLDs.

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Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

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