use of digital signatures and PKI

[Lynn.Wheeler at firstdata.com]

that has been my assertion for a couple years ... that at least 99.9999999%
of all cert events that go on in the world today are SSL events for
establishing session keys ...

random ref:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#sslcerts






Don Davis <dtd at world.std.com>@wasabisystems.com on 05/31/2001 08:07:14 PM

Sent by:  owner-cryptography at wasabisystems.com


To:   cryptography at wasabisystems.com
cc:   Gócza Zoltán <goczaz at nextramail.hu>
Subject:  Re: use of digital signatures and PKI


i have one potent, anecdotal data point:  a friend of mine is a 3-letter
executive at one of the older/bigger PKI vendors.  he surprised me in a
recent conversation, by mentioning that essentially none of his company's
customers are using PKI for signatures.  actually, he may have said, "
_no-one_ is using PKI for signatures." he says that practically all of the
certs are being used for negotiating symmetric session-keys.

                    - don davis, boston







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