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"R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> <http://sys-con.com/story/print.cfm?storyid=47592>

>  But SSL's greatest weakness is that it is oriented toward synchronous
> transactions, requiring a direct connection between participants.

Yep.  Makes it difficult to thwart traffic analysis.

>  Security in the Message
> The solution to this problem, as put forth in standards by OASIS and
> the W3C, is to absorb security into the message itself.  That is,
> provide a means of authentication, integrity, and confidentiality
> that is integral to the message, and completely decoupled from
> transport channels.

... the way encrypted email has always been.

>  The Trend Away from Channel-Level Security

> ... Furthermore, everyone is building systems predicated to have key
> pairs on both sides of a transaction: at the message producer
> (client), and the message consumer (server).

> ... SSL is sufficient for Web-like, client/server application, but
> large enterprise computing is built on asynchronous messaging;

This is welcome news also for pseudonymous p2p commerce.

> So PKI is back.

Maybe a work-around can be devised.

> Scott Morrison

D. Popkin


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