North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
The problem with SSL is it doesn't include certificate chain to arbitrary authorities. However, there's a space for web of trust in SSL, I believe, so yeah, a new verison of SSL might be just the ticket. On 8/22/2002 at 00:02:24 +0300, Petri Helenius said: > > > > > Treat them sort of like SSL certs now. Charge an annual registrar fee > > per company, not per server. (Something like $100 a year) The more they > > have to go out of their way to get their spam server online, the more > > they would be deterred to do so. They're only going to want to change > > so many ISP's, go through SWIP and then change their legal name for the > > registrar so many times. > > > Why don�t you just start using SSL certs with SMTP ? The protocol is there, > ways to get certificates are there, no need to start smoothing a square > piece > to make a new wheel. > > Pete > >
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