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RE: Draft Charter



Title: RE: Draft Charter

Steve,

 

Sounds good.

 


From: Stephen Kent [mailto:kent@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:58 PM
To: Santosh Chokhani
Cc: ietf-trust-anchor@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Draft Charter

 

At 12:26 PM -0700 8/10/07, Santosh Chokhani wrote:

Steve,

 

Would the following do?

 

slightly re-worded, to reflect the notion that a TA consists of both a public key and associated info, and that one verifies a signature with a TA, vs. signing an object with a TA:

 

 

"A relying party uses a trust anchor to verify the signature on the first certificate in a certification path, or is used to directly verify the signature on a signed object when no certification path is involved."