[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>The problem is that the original design point for PKI, CRLs, etc ....
>the offline & electronic guardrant is rapidly disappearing in the
>always on, ubiquitous internet connected environment.

Actually I have recently run into a situation that isn't always-on, it's
remote data sensing, which involves hauling a laptop out to various isolated
locations and then sending the results in from a hotel room at night.  I'm not
exactly sure what the benefit of carrying a CRL around with you as opposed to
just rejecting the data when it's submitted that evening is, you could also
just carry around a list of remote sites whose keys you don't trust any more
rather than a CRL.

Anyway, it seems like a lot of effort to be maitaining a whole PKI model just
for special-case situations like this.

Peter.

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