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Subject: RE: [dss] Representing requestor's identity
I disagree as to the approach and the priorities you describe for the work of the TC. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:35:08 -0700 >At 02:51 PM 4/30/2003 -0400, jmessing wrote: > >>I hope that you appreciate that is not about signer intent or signature >>policies. >> >>It is about ways to enable the avoidance of unpleasant legal consequences >>by having the necessary information inevitably present as metadata where >>an enterprise has many people signing for it using a single key. > >That's a good idea. But it's reasonable for standards to be designed in >layers. I think our core protocol should concern itself with the lower >layer of passing data to the server and receiving back a cryptographic >signature. > >What this signature means or doesn't mean, or what legal consequences it >entails, should be for other standards that build on top of the DSS >mechanism to decide. > >Trevor > >
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