David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com> writes:
> On 6/12/02 8:20 AM, "Eric Rescorla" <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> >> But I can do
> >> this only if I can discover certs that *aren't* either in the set it hands
> >> me or in my local set, and TLS says nothing about how to do this.
> > Yes, because it's an edge case.
>
> Scalability as an edge case. Hmm.
Well, I see that you're as confused about what I said as Bob was.
If you have a singly-rooted cert hierarchy, then you always can
provide an explicit path to a known root. This scales extremely
well.
> > I think it's a little early to start
> > worrying about cross-certification.
>
> I think it is more than a bit late.
I guess we'll just have to differ here.
-Ekr
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