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Re: Strength in Complexity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hudson)
Mon Aug 4 17:47:18 2008
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:20:48 +1000
From: Tim Hudson <tim.hudson@attglobal.net>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <87iqugeh41.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com> writes:
>> - after all people didn't really need DBMS's 30 years
>> ago because they could do all the data-management operations
>> inside each application quite well, thank you!
>
> I think that comparing the advance SQL made with SKMS seems a bit
> unreasonable.
I think that Arshad's point here is an argument that externalising key
management handling from normal application logic is a valid one but that it is
also equally applicable to existing Kerberos environments.
I don't think a point beyond "externalisation is good" was trying to be made here.
Tim
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