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CA Communication.

CA remains an off-line entity. mRSA certificates, along with private half-keys are distributed to the user and SEM-s in an off-line manner. This follows the common certificate issuance and distribution paradigm. In fact, in our implementation (Section 5) there is no need for the CA and the SEM to ever communicate directly.

Gene Tsudik
2001-05-10