At 3:30 PM -0700 8/9/07, Lucy Lynch wrote:
Really nit-picky question:
Really nit-picky is quite appropriate at this juncture!
do you really mean "to begin" or would "in" work... as in:
"A trust anchor is a public key and associated data used by a relying
party in the process of validating a signature on a signed object."
I really meant "to begin" because these are trust anchors, not keys
that might appear in the middle of a validation chain. For example,
assume you are trying to validate key A, which chains to key B, which
chains to key C, which chains to key D which you trust inherently.
Only key D is a trust anchor. Key B and key C are used "in the process
of validating".