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Amusing note on real-world PKI deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Jan 25 14:33:05 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:07:50 +1300 (NZDT)
Message-ID: <200201251007.XAA283003@ruru.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Found while submitting a paper to a PKI conference:
-- Snip --
[...]
A Note on Authentication
We're using passwords for user authentication because, given the diversity of
user platforms and the (current) lack of a widespread PKI, it's the most
suitable right now.
[...]
-- Snip --
I guess this is an updated form of the Marshall Rose quote about "when X.400
users want to communicate, they use the phone" :-).
Peter.
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