browser vendors and CAs agreeing on high-assurance certificat es

Sidney Markowitz sidney at sidney.com
Sun Dec 18 18:16:06 EST 2005


On 12/19/05 9:54 AM, leichter_jerrold at emc.com wrote:
> Imagine a "E-commerce" front end:  Instead of little-guy.com buying a cert
> which you are supposed to trust, they go to e-commerce.com and pay for a
> link.  Everyone trusts e-commerce.com and its cert.  e-commerce provides a
> guarantee of some sort to customers who go through it, and charges the
> little guys for the right.

Do you mean like Amazon Marketplace and Amazon zShops? I think it's been
done already:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1161232/103-4791981-1614232

 -- Sidney Markowitz
    http://www.sidney.com

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