RE: Personal certs

Peter Gutmann <pgut001-kVWAYfnMFF2W8ldZTk/[email protected]> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 05:16:01 +0000

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Adrian Midgley <[email protected]> writes:=0A=
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>Why did Thawte Web of Trust (a phrase I associate with Phil Zimmerman) die=
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Because no-one was interested in it [0].  The few people who care about WoT=
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did it with PGP, not X.509.=0A=
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>Did anything supplant it?=0A=
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CACert notaries, to some extent.=0A=
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Peter.=0A=
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[0] "Nobody" here meaning an insufficient number of people for it to be=0A=
    viable.=0A=
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