--- begin forwarded text To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KeyNote draft available, FYI Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:53:11 -0500 From: Matt Blaze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [I just sent this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but it may be of interest to some here, so forgive me if you've already seen this. -matt] We have just about finished what we believe is the "stable" version of the KeyNote trust management language and reference implementation. We expect to have the informational RFC describing the language submitted sometime next week and the official reference implementation available at about the same time. I believe our design meets a wide range of requirements. We are using KeyNote for a number of interesting projects, as are some other researchers and developers. If you'd like an advance peek at what we're up to, I've put up a copy of the draft for anonymous FTP at <ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/kndraft.txt> This is a draft that's likely to change slightly before being submitted, so please do not redistribue or mirror it. We'd appreciate your comments, either to me directly or on the trustmgt list. KeyNote is a small, flexible trust management system designed to be especially suitable for Internet-style applications. KeyNote provides a single, uniform language for specifying security policies and credentials, and can be used as an application policy description language as well as as a format for public-key credentials. KeyNote is a joint project of M. Blaze, J. Fiegenbaum, J. Ioannidis, and A. Keromytis. The KeyNote language and implementation are virtually without intellectual property constraints (as far as we know). We have not patented the KeyNote system or trust management generally (although of course anyone, including us, could invent and patent some specific novel application of trust management based on KeyNote). We might file a trademark on the name "KeyNote". Other than that, you can just use it. The KeyNote reference implementation will be available under a Berkeley-style open source license. I welcome your comments on our design. -matt --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'