Re: [cryptography] Request - PKI/CA History Lesson - the definition of trust

2014-05-03 Thread pjklauser
Since we're on the subject of X509 history, I found Dr. Ed Gercks Definition of Trust at [1] very helpful in really figuring out what trust can mean. This work was done fairly early on the X509 timeline. Frankly, if we could trust in DNS, we would not need to trust in web-PKIX [2] - since the

Re: [cryptography] Request - PKI/CA History Lesson - the definition of trust

2014-05-03 Thread Greg
On May 3, 2014, at 3:22 AM, pjklau...@gmail.com wrote: Frankly, if we could trust in DNS, we would not need to trust in web-PKIX [2] - since the one is just the bandaid for the other. Therefore I support any alternative DNS mechanisms (Namecoin?) which could eventually make it into the