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Re: non-key-sharing
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At 11:38 PM 11/6/97 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
>I get the feeling that there is an underling assumption that key pairs are
>a scarce resource. This is certainly not true in the SPKI case, although
>it may be in the more general digital signature realm. In the banking
>case, I specifically mentioned the assumption that the key pair used was
>specific to the account.
I suspect that the scarcity of key pairs comes back to an assumption in some
parts that one needs a purchased identity certificate in order to use a key
pair. This assumption comes from the business model of a CA, not from logic.
- Carl
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