Control Your Identity or Microsoft and Intel Will. In Jon Udell's latest column he discusses the Microsoft/Intel/AMD security scheme, Palladium, and why he advocates an alternative solution--digital certificate revocation. [O'Reilly Network Articles]
"For years I've argued that activating the security features dormant in popular email software--including Outlook, Outlook Express, and Netscape/Mozilla--is a good idea. Voluntary message signing can establish trust in a way that's useful, and doesn't require reinventing the PC around a digital-rights-management chip.
It's easy to acquire the client certificate that enables S/MIME signatures. It's been years since I did so, so to review the procedure I recently enrolled my 14-year-old daughter in Thawte's Freemail program. Here were the steps."
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