Re: Reliable delete notifies

["Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010091331220.1551-100000@janpc-home.cisco.com>, Jan 
Vilhuber writes:
>
>I don't know if it's a problem of inadequate marketing, or with customers,
>but customers don't seem to WANT any sort of Public keys. Whether it's
>equivalent to pre-shared keys (in scaling) or not is apparently not the
>issue (or maybe they aren't being educated by those who know, i.e. sales and
>marketing). I agree that using public keys and distributing them in the same
>way as pre-shared keys (except for the fact that pre-shared keys can be
>typed, whereas public-keys are not easily typed by hand) scales in the same
>way (i.e.  doesn't ;), but there's still the fact that customers seem to WANT
>pre-shared keys.
>
>Maybe simply getting rid of pre-shared key authentication will help customer
>perception here...

I wonder if it would be possible to use a supposedly pre-shared key to generate
a (very weak) public/private key pair that could then be used for
authentication.
-Angelos

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