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Message-ID: <3EBD5932.4010002@brvenik.com>
From: security at brvenik.com (Jason)
Subject: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign
yossarian wrote:
> 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.
IIRC, the problem was not that Verisign could not revoke the keys it was
that IE had no way of checking the revocation status, It was a MS
implementation problem not a problem with the issuing authority. This
has been resolved in IE ( in some places ) and you can now enable the
revocation checking however it is not enabled by default.
Google provided a good place to brush up on the incident.
http://www.amug.org/~glguerin/opinion/revocation.html
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