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Re: [homenet] routing protocol comparison document and hncp

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Tue, 03 March 2015 16:43 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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Hi,

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:31:56AM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Considering that provisioning personal certificates is the almost the 
> polar opposite of zeroconf, the chances
> of the normal schlub seeing an informative and/or trustworthy name are 
> really, really low.

You might want to entertain you reading 
 
  draft-behringer-homenet-trust-bootstrap

which gives a good idea how this could work (the general ideas, maybe not
the specific implementation).

Of course the normal end user is not going to ever look at or manually
generate a certificate.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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