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Re: [TLS] User Defined Key Pair

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 24 June 2013 18:34 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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Ø  and up to having a smart card, or hardware token that has large enough random seed that will work with the username and the password as a second factor authentication.


That doesn't seem to make sense - if you're generating the keypair, predictably, from the inputs, how does a random seed enter into it?  And what is the second factor authentication in this situation?

I'm starting to think you're swimming out a little further into the deep end then you should.

If you are trying to avoid CA's, then why not just use self-signed certificates or similar like PGP?

                /r$

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