On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-03-06 1:18 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> That's Patient 0. Its the key distribution problem. Its the cause of >> all the troubles. >> >> Web of Trust, Hierarchy of Trust, DNSSEC/DANE, Sovereign Keys, >> Convergence, {Certificate|Public Key} Pinning, Key Continuity, etc are >> all band-aides for the first patient. > > Wrong phrase. You seldom want to distribute keys. You want to distribute > information about public keys. Perhaps I should call it the info-distribution problem?
In the case of information distribution, it seems to me the problem was just moved around (to paraphrase Ian, Dr. Gutmann, et al). Jeff _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
