IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org

Thu Aug 22 00:18:05 UTC 2002

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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