[JDEV] PGP / Public Key retrieval
Bernd Eckenfels
lists at lina.inka.de
Wed Oct 11 17:44:39 CDT 2000
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:38:30AM +0200, Max Horn wrote:
> You are right. But SSL relies on CAs signing Certificates, thus we
> have to use (centralised) CAs.
Actually you dont need to. You can skip CA Certifications or genrate your
own self signed certificates. There is nothing in SSL which requirtes a
hierachy. Only the support for the web of trust is not build into exisiting
tools. But if you can feed a SSL client a certificate or check a server
certificate externally you can make that wortk based on PGP, too.
Greetings
Bernd
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