[203] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: What is "certificate"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal)
Mon Oct 10 22:14:08 1994
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:25:25 -0700
From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
To: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
For another view of how different kinds of certificates and credentials
could work, see the paper:
> Charlie Lai, Gennady Medvinsky, and B. Clifford Neuman. Endorsements,
> Licensing, and Insurance for Distributed System Services. 2nd ACM
> Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Fairfax VA,
> November 1994.
available from:
> ftp://prospero.isi.edu/pub/papers/security/insurance-cccs94.ps.Z
They describe different kinds of credentials and some of the considerations
involved in validating and trusting them, similar to the recent
discussion here. Their ideas are not web-specific but seem general
enough to be relevant.
Hal Finney
hfinney@shell.portal.com
