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Re: Out on a loop

To: dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
Subject: Re: Out on a loop
From: "Derrell D. Piper" <ddp@network-alchemy.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:31:24 -0800
Cc: spki@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:23:51 EST." <199712171623.LAA12025@argon.ncsc.mil>
Sender: owner-spki@c2.net

>If you would just call it the "Public Key Authorization Protocol", and
>stop referring to it as "a radical departure from X.509" or otherwise
>comparing it to PKI mechanisms, a lot of confusion would be avoided.
>You bring this upon yourself by using the words "Infrastructure" and
>"Certificate" instead of more descriptive terms like "Authorization"
>and "Ticket".

I think this is a very astute comment.  I had a similar reaction when this
(and SDSI) were first gelling in my mind.  I wonder if we really are creating
confusion here.  I think it's potentially very powerful, but I don't think
it's acurately characterized as a public key infrastructure either.  Isn't its
very nature more like anti-infrastructure?

Derrell

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