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Re: The PKC-only application security model ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sat Jul 26 14:58:47 2008

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:09:40 +1200
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
Cc: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>,
	Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>,
	Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080724013736.GI25547@Sun.COM>

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> writes:
> Advice on how to generate self-signed certs for this purpose would be
> good for an FYI, or even a BCP.  I don't think we need extensions to any
> protocols that support PKI to support bare PK (though some protocols
> have both, e.g., IKE).

It's been around for nearly a decade, see
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/autonomous.txt.

Peter.


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