[51316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: introducer trust model, Was: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Aug 22 21:51:43 2002
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
Cc: nigel@forever-networks.com,
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Jerry Eyers <jeyers@rebma.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:51:06 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <20020822142836.A92148@mail.webmonster.de>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" wr
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>i am not an expert in this field, but i think that a generic standard
>for this kind of trust model is long overdue, the only application
>nowadays out there in the wild using it being pgp's model of the web of
>trust.=20
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I doubt that it would work well -- one "mole" would suffice for many
large penetrations.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)
