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Re: [homenet] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 26 November 2015 19:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On 26/11/15 16:49, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> Hmm. I've also setup many small PKIs and don't agree. I do think someone
>> could easily make all that quite usable within the home.
> 
> Have you ever walked a non-specialist through the process?

I have not. But as others said, the key idea would be to make
it as invisible as possible, which is quite doable. And the
tools are there these days (much moreso than even 5-6 years
ago) in pretty much all platforms/languages.

S.

> 
> -- Juliusz
>

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