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Re: Draft Charter IPSEC WG
The problem with setting up a key management working group now is that
the requirements for it aren't clear. Just to pick an example out
of a hat, electronic mail requires a very different protocol than
does, say, SNMP, where a network management center will rarely try
to control a random network element that they didn't install. Even
if public key technology is needed in that case -- and I can imagine
some circumstances where it might be useful, though not mandatory --
one certainly doesn't need the full-blown signature overhead.
Let's figure out what types of keys IPSEC, or CAT, or PEM, or whatever
need. Then we'll know what to ask of a key management protocol.
--Steve Bellovin
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