Re: msgtrk: MTQP, TLS, & SRV

Lawrence Greenfield <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Feb 2002 22:26:46 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.msgtrk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
   From: Keith Moore <[email protected]>
   cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro <[email protected]>, Tony Hansen <[email protected]>,
      [email protected]
   Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:39:56 -0500

   > "smtp3.example.com" might not be a great choice: that certificate name
   > may already be in use on a different machine. 

   is that really a problem?  can't there be different keys (on different
   machines) for a single principal?

If the two machines are under identical adminstrative control
(probably an ok assumption for msgtrk) and if compromising one machine
is acceptable for impersonating the other, this is ok.

Larry