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Re: CFP: PKI research workshop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Tue Jan 15 20:26:49 2002
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Reply-To: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@em.no-ip.com>
From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: "EKR" <ekr@rtfm.com>,
"Stef Caunter" <stefan.caunter@senecac.on.ca>,
"D. A. Honig" <dahonig@home.com>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:38:40 +0800
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> Here you're talking about "reputation of nyms", which doesn't require
> third parties or certs, just well-kept secret keys of a PK pair.
> If the remote entity keeps using the same PK keys, you can reasonably
> update reputation
> based on that alone. (They're essentially signing their behaviors.)
On the other hand it must be said that, if reputation really worked as we
would like, some sloppy and deservingly accident-prone Certification
Authorities would be out of business by now.
Enzo
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