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Re: [pkng] Some more wacky ideas... Usability ?

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Sat, 14 November 2009 01:42 UTC

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On 11/13/09 1:09 AM, Massimiliano Pala wrote:

> as we have seen the need for
> isolated PKIs to federate (most of the time AFTER they have
> been deployed), I would suggest investigating (and I am totally
> volunteering for this) mechanisms to integrate existing and
> future infrastructures. In more details, I was thinking about
> using Peer-2-peer technologies to provide a sort of PKNG
> overlay network for secure communication between PK-nodes
> (more for CAs nodes rather than End Entities nodes - for
> usability and ease-of-deployment considerations).

Forgive me for being an IM guy, but when it comes to personal trust
online, for many people the buddy list is the center of the universe. I
like the idea of person to person trust because it could be represented
or instantiated in the buddy list, and that would feel natural to a lot
of people. The idea of the buddy list could be extended to application
servers, CAs, and other such entities (in fact we have been exploring
that in the Jabber community for incident reporting between servers).

Peter

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