[Cryptography] Verisimilitrust

[Peter Gutmann]

John Denker <jsd at av8n.com> writes:

>  1) Add the CA to the list, because the WebPKI was only
>   designed to facilitate e-commerce.
>
>  2) Don't add the CA to the list, because the WebPKI was only
>   designed to facilitate e-commerce.

In around 2000 during the peak of the PKI mania, a frequently-heard claim was:

  "e-commerce needs PKI in order to function"

Carl Ellison turned it around to express the real situation:

  "PKI needs e-commerce in order to function"

Peter.