February 5, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
54
Chaining Certificates
nHow do we determine whether two certificates chain together?
nYou’d think this was an easy problem...
nBut it’s actually a question with religious significance in the security community
n“Are you a believer in names, or in keys?”
nIn order to understand the schism, we need to digress for a bit and talk about names and some history