Re: CFP: PKI research workshop
Let us see. Monorails are commonplace in airports these days. Web cams for online chat are used by millions of teenagers SST ? What is that Phill -Original Message- From: Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27 December 2001 21:42 Subject: Re: CFP: PKI research workshop >>As I never tire of saying, "PKI is the ATM of security." > >Naah, it's the monorail/videophone/SST of security. Looks great at the World >Fair, but a bit difficult to turn into a reality outside the fairgrounds. > >Peter (who would like to say that observation was original, but it was actually > stolen from Scott Guthery). > > >- >The SPKI Mailing List >Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe spki" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CFP: PKI research workshop
Methinks you complain too much. PKI is in widespread use, it is just not that noticeable when you use it. This is how it should be. SSL is widely used to secure internet payment transactions. S/MIME use is significant and growing. The financial industry is not looking at offline PKI models in general. This is not surprising since they use very few offline systems. Hence certificate/CRL based models which were first promoted for use with email are tending to be replaced by online systems such as OCSP and ultimately XKMS which allows the certificate to be dispensed with entirely if required. What we are not seeing is demand for naming semantics of the form 'the person who fred call's jim'. As for what PKI vendors have been up to, the sucessful ones have been supporting private label certification hierarchies from the start. Phill - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
