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[Cryptography] Key management,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Sep 14 16:22:55 2013
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Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:46:20 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Max Kington <mkington@webhanger.com>
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:23:40 +0100 Max Kington
<mkington@webhanger.com> wrote:
> The keys. This to me is the critical point for widespread adoption,
> key management. How do you do this in a way that doesn't put people
> off immediately.
You don't seem to be entirely talking about key management, given
that you talk about mailpile and parley. Parley seems to be simply
talking about *key storage* for example, which is a different kettle
of fish.
However, on the topic of key management itself, my own proposal was
described here:
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2013-August/016870.html
In summary, I proposed a way you can map IDs to keys through pure
long term observation/widely witnessed events. The idea is not
original given that to some extent things like Certificate
Transparency already do this in other domains.
Perry
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