On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
This doesn't seem to have garnered much attention, but this year
marks two
milestones in PKI: Loren Kohnfelder's thesis was published 30 years
ago, and
X.509v1 was published 20 years ago.
As a sign of PKI's successful penetration of the marketplace, the
premier get-
together for PKI folks, the IDtrust Symposium (formerly the PKI
Workshop and
now in its eighth year) authenticates participants with... username
and
password, for lack of a working PKI.
(OK, it's a bit of a cheap shot and it's been done before, but I
thought it
was especially significant this year :-).
Yeah, they should be using OpenID. :-)
Jon
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