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Re: Security for various IETF services

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 09 April 2014 17:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Security for various IETF services
From: Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com>
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On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
> The interesting premise in the suggestion is that a web of trust key management model is useful at Internet scale.

It doesn't actually require a web of trust.   It could work as well (likely better) as a simple whitelisting system with no shared trust at all.

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