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Re: PKI is weakly secure (was Re: Updating the rules?)

2007-07-09 07:31:10
What, do you mean, strong security?

Given that CAs of PKI can be compromised as easily as ISPs
of the Internet, PKI is merely weakly secure as weakly as
the plain Internet.

        i would not word like this, you are asking for flamewar :-)

        i would say:
        - technologies that use hierarchical structure to combat scalability
          problem is very tough to make a successful deployment
        - key distribution problem is almost like NP-complete problem, it is
          way too difficult that you need some assumption to relax it (e.g.
          ssh first-time contact weak authentication)

        you now know which RFC i do not really love :-P

itojun

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