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Re: [openpgp] Opening up the debate on PKI / WoT / future of OpenPGP

2015-04-24 14:03:24

On Apr 20, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker 
<phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> wrote:


What we need is the PKI equivalent of structured programming. PKIX is
Pascal. PGP is BASIC. Yes, you can do anything with IF-THEN-GOTO. But
you probably should not try.

If only there were a way to do that.

Let's consider a machine that has a set of simple operations that it can do, 
like IF-GOTO and another language that did more complex things like 
IF-THEN-ELSE. If we could make something that could take the complex language 
and translate it into a set of the simpler statements reliably, then perhaps we 
could solve that problem.

        Jon

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