Re: [guardian-dev] WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-18 Thread Patrick Baxter
Thanks for the response! I'm glad you have similar interests in this. I have some responses inline: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:45 PM, elijah eli...@riseup.net wrote: If I read correctly, a few of your main points are: (1) We need well defined and expanded trust metrics (2) Everything would be

Re: WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:15, pa...@cs.ucsb.edu said: And of course the last issue is finding a sane way for user's to store and use private keys. Hence the PSST project and the eventual idea of PSST? That used to be the working title for a free implementation of ssh back in 1997. iirc, I sent

Re: [guardian-dev] WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-06 Thread Nathan of Guardian
Werner Koch: On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:15, pa...@cs.ucsb.edu said: And of course the last issue is finding a sane way for user's to store and use private keys. Hence the PSST project and the eventual idea of PSST? That used to be the working title for a free implementation of ssh back in

Re: WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-06 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 5 December 2012 23:15, Patrick Baxter pa...@cs.ucsb.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Melvin Carvalho melvincarva...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure I've grokked everything in this thread, but some thoughts. I'm working on the TL;DR version :). Tying a key to a 'domain' (aka

Re: WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/06/2012 05:40 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: Yes, in theory I could add an SSL cert to my homepage, though I havent paid for one yes. You can get a free one at https://www.startssl.com/ ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-05 Thread Patrick Baxter
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Melvin Carvalho melvincarva...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure I've grokked everything in this thread, but some thoughts. I'm working on the TL;DR version :). Tying a key to a 'domain' (aka URI) is something that can be done already using linked data. I do so on

Re: [guardian-dev] WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-03 Thread Miron (devrandom)
Hi Patrick, Have you seen EFF's Sovereign Keys project? It attempts to establish a distributed single-mapping database of cert - domain. Also see the schemes in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0015, altough they create new handles rather than try to capture existing ones.

Re: [guardian-dev] WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-03 Thread Patrick Baxter
Yup, Sovereign Keys is awesome. I hadn't looked it up since thinking more about the importance of having a single mapping but on a quick re-read I understand it as follows: Sovereign keys has a very strict requirement for changing this mapping as domain names should. ie. Only a key revocation can

WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-01 Thread Patrick Baxter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, I have a couple research ideas dealing with Authentication and the WOT. I'm looking for any criticism, opinions, or thoughts on my current directions. Mostly, I want to make sure I'm not barking at the wrong problems or that there are not