full-disclosure - PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

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From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:21:31PM +0200, yossarian said:
> 
> defences - who do you trust? Maybe the CA has good policies, and maybe the
> auditing by some accounting firm (KPMG, CGEY, etc.) is good, but all you can
> do here is believe or not believe them - the reports are just paper. There

Since KPMG once accidentally sent me an email that was evidently
intended to be a confidential "on background" response to a reporter
from The Economist, I'm not inclined to assign them infinite trust.

(eiv.com and eiu.com are awfully close, and at the time I had all mail
for unknown users going to me instead of being bounced.  The daily flood
of stuff for Rush Limbaugh cured me of that.)

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