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Re: Modelling trust
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At 05:01 PM 3/5/98 -0800, Tony Bartoletti wrote:
>SPKI (rather quiet of late) has already transitioned from theory to
>implementation, but they may be the most receptive. I say this because
>the lightweight (some would say "inadequate") nature of their form for
>supporting global PKI still leaves as an open question how this form
>might be deployed and "ganged together" to support larger and varied
>needs. (I hope Carl Ellison and Perry Metzger don't beat me up;)
OK, Tony, I'll beat you up. :)
I think it's important to note that SPKI's lack of a global directory
structure (such as X.500), if that's what you're referring to, is purely
intentional. That global directory structure is a source of security flaws.
- Carl
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