On 10/4/14, 10:16 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On 05/10/2014 09:24, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
>> Right - but we still have to agree on the admin or, as you put it,
>> ownership model. At least one of the proposal for autonomic networking
>>is
>> a centralized approach as opposed to configuring a single authentication
>> password on each new device (as one with do with a WiFi network).
>
>Let me check that I understand. Are you saying that there are two basic
>models for enrollment?
>
>1. "Hello, I am Brian. Please enrol me; the shared secret is *!&$£@."
>
>2. "Hello, I am Brian. My public key is 12345, and should already
>be in your list. [Signed with my private key.]"

That¹s basically the trade-off although there are many variations of #2.
Here is one example:

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-pritikin-bootstrapping-keyinfrastructures-01.t
xt

The question is what are we willing to accept in the homenet in terms of
both device configuration and device requirements.

Thanks,
Acee 



>
>    Brian
>

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