-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi
On Thursday 6 February 2014 at 6:29:35 PM, in <mid:20140206102935.horde.-af3gsq0xd6sxqnzge2i...@mail.sixdemonbag.org>, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > You are free to redefine black as white while you're at > it. Thanks, I'm sure it will come in handy some day. > When you decide which certificates to accept, you are > serving as your own CA. No I am not. An example of a similarly false statement would be "When a trader does not employ an accountant he is serving as his own accountant." > When you outsource this to someone else, that other person or agency > is serving as your CA. So Mozilla serves as the CA for most Firefox users, because Mozilla makes the decision which root certificates to trust. > But no matter how you slice it, there's still a CA in the picture. Except where the individual makes the decisions themself without referring/deferring to an authority. - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net Wise men learn many things from their enemies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iPQEAQEKAF4FAlLz4HpXFIAAAAAALgAgaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEJBMjM5QjQ2ODFGMUVGOTUxOEU2QkQ0NjQ0 N0VDQTAzAAoJEKipC46tDG5pyI0EAMd7+wRJuAYxK2Alb9DigN39ZfNqAcjhA8nX REQaUF581+bKVtKG7WYsE4N9e+1s4DipoIOfDTQ/Os8qtf2DXyAAcokWWRoAe3w7 qG9wXxS3dyWcj1jWyqZfgqSXfE1o85TXd7dsvpxwUsxxQCOQxfM18IG7966H+5NP uo4BQb85 =kiaJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
