At 9:26 PM -0400 8/20/07, Stephen Kent wrote:
The notion of trust anchors has been, for the last 15 years or so, a purely public key notion. So yes, I would argue that if we want to work on what it going to be called a trust anchor management protocol, it needs to be based on public keys and signature validation. If folks want to do something else, make up a new name, this one is taken :-).
I agree with Steve. Everyone involved so far has been talking about public keys, which if nothing else shows that this is the common theme.
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