"R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quotes: >http://www2.cio.com/research/security/edit/a05232002.html > >CIO Magazine >Only Mostly Dead >By Scott Berinato > >[...]
Actually it's not quite that bad. I have a paper "PKI: It's Not Dead, Just Resting" (no relation to the article, despite the name) which takes a (hopefully) somewhat detached look at PKI issues and how they can be addressed, covering (as far as possible within the 15-page limit) the X.509 and PGP approaches, as well as the other usual suspects like AADS, XML/SAML, SPKI, and so on, as well as some areas which nothing seems to be doing at the moment - it's an attempt to do a grand unified view of PKI without ending up with a whole book. I've also tried to throw in a reasonable amount of historical perspective to explain why some (mostly X.509) things are done the way they are. It may or may not appear in ;login, the Usenix journal, at some point, although I haven't heard anything for awhile. It's available from http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/notdead.zip (zipped PDF) for anyone who's interested. I wouldn't link to it at the moment because of its current in-limbo status, once it's officially published somewhere I'll add a link from my home page. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
