Many thanks to the list members who have contributed ideas to the above - I'll share the results by previewing the paper in the next few weeks if I may.
Having been a devotee of the financial crypto community for many years, a thought has just occurred to me about the possible use of Systemics Ricardian Contract idea as a practical implementation of a distributed access control mechanism. I came across Akanti http://www-itg.lbl.gov/Akenti/ - augmented x509 certs used as access control tokens in a distributed environment. It seems that this problem space is similar to the fincrypto domain. Proprietary non-human readable binary/ascii formats have arguably lost ground to human readable name/value pair formats (i.e. XML and before that IATA), so it would seem a logical progression to extend Herr Grigg's Ricardian ontology to include a DAC "contract"? Cheers G --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
