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Re: Alternative authentication & SPKI



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At 11:20 AM 3/19/98 -0800, Nick Szabo wrote:
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>Has any work been done on using SPKI or PolicyMaker
>with alternative authentications schemes, such
>as ZKIP, designated confirmer signatures, 
>undeniable signatures, etc.?   To what
>extent to SPKI and PolicyMaker depend on
>the features of traditional public key 
>signatures -- e.g. nonrepudiation and an unrestricted 
>set of verifiers?

I don't believe SPKI depends on either...because I believe non-repudiation 
is an unachievvable fantasy, today, and I've built examples with a 
restricted set of verifiers (by keeping public keys secret or using 
secret-key sigs).  However, I haven't tried the options you list.

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