[Ilugc] digital signatures in India

[Joe Steeve]

Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
> I think your initial question was more related to the keypair 
> generated by tools like gnupg ("Does this mean., that if you purchase
>  a key-pair from the CA, you'll have to ditch your current
> key-pair?")? Gnupg ("web of trust scheme") and the CA-based system
> ("PKI scheme") are completely disjoint, PKI is the one that is more
> practical for authenticating several thousand clients to a tax-filing
> website, for example.

Ah., ok.. i get it :) I had an idea that that CA will generate a
key-pair sign it with their pvt-key and give the signed keys to you. I
see I was wrong :)

Thanks.

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