[dtn-security] Detail of PSB change...

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Fri, 23 February 2007 14:00 UTC

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In a mail to dtn-interest I said:

 > PS: I'm not saying the current BSP spec has got this correct, it
 > probably needs fixing in a few ways. But I do think we can do that
 > in the BSP spec and not re-open the BP spec. E.g. perhaps we need
 > to add a optional "signature number" to the current PSB ciphersuite,
 > with the meaning that this is the n-th signature added or something.

I just had a maybe-better/maybe-worse idea:

We could add a "signature layer" value s.t. signatures with layer
N cover all PSBs with layer < N. I think that's cute and maybe
useful, but we'll have to think through the semantics.

S.

Re: [dtn-security] Detail of PSB change... Peter Lovell
[dtn-security] Detail of PSB change... Stephen Farrell