Sounds like the right solution.

Cheers,

Peter.

----- Original message -----
> On 29-12-11 12:46, Peter wrote:
>
> > By self signing your own certificates, the people at the other end still 
> > need
> > a way to id you're cert. This is the hardest part of cryptography to solve.
> > There may not always be a user or person on the other end, so there needs to
> > be a programmatic alternative also.
>
> Yes, this problem is what i tried to adress, or to avoid, by stating:
>
> > One could have the trustmanager offer the unknown certificate for
> > acceptance to the user, in order to allow authentication via external
> > channels.
>
> Authenticating the self signed certificate by electronic means from
> within the jini domain is unsolveable imho. Thats why i want to leave it
> up to the implementor of the application to solve the problem. User
> interfaces like bluetooth authentication spring to mind. The
> authentication problem is quite similar to bluetooth.
>
> Gr. Sim
>
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