IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit

Sean Smith sws at cs.dartmouth.edu
Thu Jul 11 13:16:19 EDT 2002


>IE comes preloaded with about 34 root certificate authorities, and
>it is easy for the end user to add more, to add more in batches.

A colleague of mine just loaded a new root into IE, and pointed
out that when one does this, the new root is apparently BY DEFAULT
enabled for all purposes, including some interesting ones
like "Digital Rights" and "Windows System Component Verification."

I just tried this, and it appears to be the case.  (But I haven't 
yet tried to see whether Windows will happily use my root for these 
OS-specific purposes....)

--Sean











-- 
Sean W. Smith, Ph.D.                         sws at cs.dartmouth.edu   
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/       (has ssl link to pgp key)
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA




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