Hi，Hannes， > > > I personally believe that you will not get the necessary support > from the EMU working group to get the charter changed and the group > interested in IBE. > I can tell you that I will not spend my time on it. > > My reasons are being less excited are: > * Identity based crypto as a technology does not really solve a > problem. (In case you are going to ask: "yes" I looked it some time > ago when I tried to figure out what value it provides for some IETF > protocols. And guess what - I couldn't find any benefits.) > * "ETSI wants it" is not a good reason for me todo anything. > * I have so many other great documents to review. > * The IPR situation with identity based crypto makes me feel uneasy. > May I ask for the reason why you think you could not find any benefits in identity based cryptography? Only beacause it has IPR problems? To be object, identity based cryptography is a great idea, you don't have to transfer long public key, and checking status of public keys frequently.
Regards~~~ -Sujing
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