Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:26:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: New host key for freefall! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171312150.80144-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000517121150.dhh@androcles.com>
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Duane H. Hesser wrote:
> Sorry to bust in in the middle like this. This is the first message
> on this topic I've seen, so I haven't seen the "previous material",
> thus the comments/questions below may be irrelevant to the discussion
> at hand (if so, please forgive the intrusion).
It spilled over from a discussion on -committers which went off-topic. We
were talking about the benefits and obstacles to establishing a FreeBSD CA
for "project use".
> For some time, I have had an interest SDSI (Simple Distributed
> Security Infrastructure) by Ronald Rivest and Butler Lampson. It
> has a simple elegance which appeals to me, although I have not yet
> had much opportunity to work with it.
>
> Would this infrastructure be of interest in your current discussion?
Frankly, there's no shortage of proposals for a public-key infrastructure
flying around the internet, so I'm not sure what the particular benefits
of this one are :-)
Plus, the license on the software disallows commercial use, which means it
can't be integrated into FreeBSD as part of a larger infrastructure :-/
Kris
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