SSO authentication: a new approach
    Ray Plante 
    rplante at ncsa.uiuc.edu
       
    Thu Mar 10 19:45:06 CET 2005
    
    
  
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Guy Rixon wrote:
> Your weak certficates: how does a receiving service distinguish them from a
> strong certficate? Do they have a different CA?
Yes.  And the name of the weak CA explicitly features the word "Weak" in
it.  Applications then may choose whether to trust this CA depending on
their security needs.  See document for details.  An important point of 
the weak cert is to avoid the pain-in-the-ass processes we have now when 
it isn't needed, but to be compatible with it when it is.  
cheers,
Ray
    
    
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