Re: Security for various IETF services

On 4/9/2014 10:49 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>      > the way forward is pretty straightforward: Take the S/MIME message
>      > format and graft the PGP web of trust and fingerprint trust models onto
>      > it.
>
> I agree wholly with your prefatory observation, and like your suggested
> solution.

The interesting premise in the suggestion is that a web of trust key 
management model is useful at Internet scale.
I don't understand why anyone believes that.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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