At 06:14 PM 3/25/2002 -0500, John Saylor wrote: >I'd like to find an authentication protocol that fits my needs: >1. 2 [automated] parties >2. no trusted 3rd party intemediary ['Trent' in _Applied_Crypto_]
You want to look at the work of Carl Ellison and folks on SPKI It allows one party to authenticate the second. If that fits your case, and it fits a lot, then you are done. No CA needed. The SPKI stuff is at http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html Pat Pat Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pfarrell.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]