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Re: Standardization and renewability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thierry Moreau)
Thu Aug 4 16:24:11 2005
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Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:43:38 -0400
From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>
To: Hagai Bar-El <info@hbarel.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Hagai Bar-El wrote:
> [...]
>
> Up till now I could come up with three approaches to solve this problem:
>
> 1. Limit renewability to keying.
Then you should study "A Note About Trust Anchor Key Distribution", see
http://www.connotech.com/takrem.pdf. It allows to distribute public keys
to be used, if need be, at a later time in a different context.
> 2. Generalize the scheme (like the SPDC concept, or MPEG IPMP), more or
> less by making the standard part general, with non-standard "profiles".
> 3. Standardize sets of key management methods at once, so to have spares
> for immediate switching.
>
> [...]
>
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