Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing:
http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html I'd be interested in hearing what people think on the topic. I'm a bit skeptical of his position, partially because I think we have too little experience with real world attacks on cryptographic protocols, but I'm fairly open-minded at this point. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com