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Re: authentication protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Farrell)
Fri Mar 29 16:21:49 2002
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:16:33 -0500
To: John Saylor <johns@worldwinner.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@pfarrell.com>
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At 06:14 PM 3/25/2002 -0500, John Saylor wrote:
>I'd like to find an authentication protocol that fits my needs:
>1. 2 [automated] parties
>2. no trusted 3rd party intemediary ['Trent' in _Applied_Crypto_]
You want to look at the work of Carl Ellison and folks on SPKI
It allows one party to authenticate the second. If that fits your case,
and it fits a lot, then you are done. No CA needed.
The SPKI stuff is at
http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html
Pat
Pat Farrell pfarrell@pfarrell.com
http://www.pfarrell.com
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