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Re: Director of Central Intelligence on Trust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl M. Ellison)
Thu Apr 30 00:39:34 1998
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:38:59 +0100
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
From: "Carl M. Ellison" <cme@acm.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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At 13:05 -0400 4/29/98, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
>Tenet says the need now is for trust systems rather than security systems:
He's right, in a way -- but his plans are wrong, if he thinks gov't
experience with key management is applicable. After all, with the gov't,
all authority is delegated down a hierarchy and keys are usually generated
in a central place (the NSA?) and handed out to users.
He needs to start following the SPKI WG and adding his $0.02
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