[145640] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: A mighty fortress is our PKI, Part II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Wed Aug 11 20:26:44 2010
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:36:11 -0400
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, smb@cs.columbia.edu,
ben@links.org, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <8065B762-3A62-468A-9238-72EC1042B6E2@callas.org>
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:46:44PM -0700, Jon Callas wrote:
>
> I think you'll have to agree that unlike history, which starts out as
> tragedy and replays itself as farce, PKI has always been farce over the
> centuries. It might actually end up as tragedy, but so far so good. I'm
> sure that if we look further, the Athenians had the same issues with it
> that we do today, and that Sophocles had his own farcical commentary.
If you want to see a PKI tragedy in the making, have a look at the CRLs
used by the US DoD.
Thor
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
