Re: [woes] Naked Public Key, was: RE: Proposed charter, post-Quebec edition

[Leif Johansson <[e-mail]>]

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On 08/05/2011 02:11 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> Support for naked keys is useful.
> 
> Lack of support for certificates where needed would be unacceptable and
> render the format unsuited for many of the applications we need it for.
> 
> Certificates are pretty simple to deal with. The problems that they are used
> to address are not simple.

I also think you need both. Sometimes you need to use a key for both
signing and TLS for instance.

> 
> Whatever you thought of the 'Trust Router' proposal made at last IETF, it is
> certainly no simpler than the PKI based approach and that is before they
> have put it in operation and found the operational requirements.

I don't think that proposal is targeted for anything that comes even
remotely close to signed objects. Lets not go there.

	Cheers Leif
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