----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter J. Cherny" <pet...@luddite.com.au>
> I've (re)sent this to the list as no-one else has noted it <g> > > Possibly a game-changer in the (academic) 802.1x space ... > http://www.project-moonshot.org/diary > http://www.painless-security.com/blog/ I did see that come in, and was going to look into it more deeply tonight; if it is -- as it appears to be -- a framework for globally federated identification/authentication, then it will probably hit the same walls (of theory, not merely implementation) which other earlier attempts have hit: privacy and non-correlation being prime among them. It's orthogonal to 802.1x, though, unless anyone's shipping code to hook a dot1x server to it as you would, say, a Radius server. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274