14 January 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:17:28 -0500 To: cryptography@c2.net From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: CA as authorized banking activity --- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:18:34 -0800 From: jmuller@brobeck.com (John D. Muller) Subject: CA as authorized banking activity To: digsig@vm.temple.edu, bl-efs-mem@abanet.org, ecp@abanet.org, dcsb@ai.mit.edu The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency yesterday released its approval for Digital Signature Trust Company to act as a certificate authority (approval was required because DSTC is a subsidiary of a national bank). The approval is of particular interest to banking lawyers, but the description of DSTC's activities and the steps it will take to limit its potential liability may also be of interest to others. See http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/release/98-4.txt and http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/release/98-4att.pdf John Muller mailto:jmuller@brobeck.com For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request@ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>