Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> I don't see how the four-corner model solves the issue that I
    >> highlighted.  If the client does not have a key for any local AS, then
    >> nothing helps.  The four-corner model deals with the issue of the
    >> client and the RS not trusting the same AS, but the different AS
    >> entities trust each other on the back side.
    >>
    >> Getting trust in a local AS seems to be a bootstrapping problem.

    > If you only have one security domain, there is no benefit.  But in
    > general is it much easier to bootstrap a device once into its own
    > security domain, instead of having to do the bootstrapping again and
    > again for each server that device needs to access.

That was my understanding.

The four corner removes the problem of how C trusts RS to a problem of how
does C ask CAS whether it can trust RS.  Which could involve significant
layers of PKI or human override (or pixie dust).


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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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