thoth_at_purplefrog.com writes:
> Brian Bartholomew <bb_at_wv.com> ,in message <199803311745.MAA16766_at_battleship>,
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> 	rote: 
> 
> > > Maintaining a single CA certificate to verify server certificates is
> > > a little easier than copying all the keys around.
> > 
> > I'm happy as long as the certificate authority is on a box under my
> > control.  There's no reason any central authority should audit or
> > control my use of Coda.
> 
>   Precisely.  You create your own CA, install the cert on all the coda
> machines in the cluster, and then issue certificates for each server.

Why use a "CA" at all, under such circumstances?

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