AW: gpg certificate authorities

Huels, Ralf SCORE Ralf.Huels@schufa.de
Mon Feb 18 16:31:02 2002


> The problem is more social than technical - to have working CAs, they must
> be CAs that most people in the web of trust trust. 

Also, some people argue that X.509 is more interesting for commercial trust 
centers than OpenPGP because the hierarchical PKI calls for a central trust 
authority in a way the web of trust approach does not.

Tschuess,
Ralf