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Subject: Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees
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>> someone like the FreeBSD Foundation as an appropriate body to own the cert.
>
> <OT>
> I would actually trust a self-signed cert by the FreeBSD security officer,
> more then one by Verisign.
of course.

there is no need to have an "authority" to make key pairs, everybody do it 
alone.

actually i would fear using such keys because i'm sure such companies do 
have a copy of both keys.