Re: [Cfrg] SFE Standards?

Natanael <natanael.l@gmail.com> Thu, 10 September 2015 05:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] SFE Standards?
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Den 10 sep 2015 04:04 skrev "Henry B (Hank) Hotz, CISSP" <hbhotz@oxy.edu>:
>
> Are there any standards out there that would address the use of something
like Secure Function Evaluation for common Certification Authority
operations?
>
> As a canonical example, how about the process for a top-level CA to sign
the certificate for a second-level CA? Typically you might require that two
“passwords” be entered by two different people before the operation becomes
possible. (Hopefully k of n people in general?)
>
> Seems like we shouldn’t need so much special hardware to solve these
problems. The example I gave is specifically extremely low volume, so speed
is NOT a significant consideration.

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