🚀 go-pugleaf

smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:

>The procedures are discussed in RFC1114; I commend that to those
>interested in RSADSI's role.  Briefly, you will generate your own
>public/private key pair.  That's mandatory -- otherwise, whoever issued
....
>The normal mode of operation, then, would be for me to go to the AT&T
>PEM office.  They'd generate a random public/private key pair for me.

Woooh!!!  Now AT&T can read all my traffic.  No thank you.

I will generate my own key, and no one gets my private component.  NO ONE!

>You cannot legally ``use your own unregistered key'' within the US;
>to do so would be to infringe their patent.

Then what is the precedure for me to register my key (and it is only the
private component that they get).  AT&T is NOT my long distance carrier.
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