full-disclosure - PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

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From: yossarian at planet.nl (yossarian)
Subject: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

What I wonder - will Verisign have set up CRL servers yet? Remember the IE
problem when someone got hold of MS certificates? The MS-fix was
blacklisting them locally, the real problem was that there was no revocation
servers. Then again, how many concurrent connections would they get if MS
sent out a critical update?

So - stick to PGP - forget about PKI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evans, TJ (BearingPoint)" <tjevans@...ringpoint.net>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] PGP vs. certificate from Verisign


> At one time, i.e. - don't know if it still the case - Thawte would issue a
> "personal cert" free.
>
> One advantage PGP has is the existing infrastructure for key distribution,
> so that you do not necessarily need to have someone's public key (yet) in
> order to encrypt to them or verify their signature.  If they have pushed
it
> out to the publicly accessible key-servers you can get it as needed.  But
> again - it depends on what problem you are trying to solve and your
> preferred method of doing so.
>
>
> TJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anne Carasik [mailto:gator@...l.cacr.caltech.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 3:46 PM
> To: Kamal Habayeb
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] PGP vs. certificate from Verisign
>
> OpenPGP is free :) as are other implementations of PGP.
>
> Paying VeriSign to create a digital certificate for you
> is not worth it, considering most of the encryption you
> run into in the wild is PGP keys.
>
> -Anne
>
>
> Kamal Habayeb grabbed a keyboard and typed...
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm trying to get some expert opinions on which is better.  Using
Outlook
> > 2002, would it be better to use PGP to encrypt messages or use the
> built-in
> > option with a digital certificate from Verisign (or some other CA)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kamal
>
>
>
>
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