> The idea of mixing a badge for visual inspection with PKI for remote > access > was a great idea. Ten years ago. Today it only creates problems and > should be
I would tend to agree, using traditional engineering principles. But its an enticing social prospect: take the existing US drivers license, and just replace it with almost the same thing with a chip on it. Bully the issuers (the network of licensing offices) to get ready for card management processes, en masse. One can go from 0 to 100kmh so quickly! - with such a limited scope infrastructure upgrade. One can thereby break through all the logjams. Breaking through the logjams - as prep. for something better - may be well worth doing, of itself. If we can just first get a craft in orbit, then we can worry about the moon shot. 1. TPM: remove hardware vs software distinction: control China repurposing PC motherboards, and the ripoff/piracy culture: encourage local design and sharing 2. e-passports : improve wireless range and reliability: control flow of people across economies 3. realids: get the LOCAL issuing systems geared up: control personal encryption, tag all transactions end-end. If we think more widely, we HAVE to break the problem down: or we will just sit here for another 10 years with no infrastructure breakthroughs. To my mind, it looks like the technology end of the current design round is coming to the end of its cycle (once $2 "unused" parts are in products (TPMs)). Now it's the turn of the business end. For once, the Federal govt. actually looks like its embracing capitalism, as the launch fuel. If I heard right (Peter looks around, worried expression), the realid program is to be funded by selling off GCs and GP keysets on the common card to business channels, who pay the States for the repurposing rights that drive their e-business. Now at least that is sensible set of social dynamics! Sell virtual branding. Now the only question in my mind, is how long will the space/time continuum anomaly last. Intelligence in the Federal government's crypto programs is very unusual. But it's a definite change to the usual jackboot mentality. So, lets be hopeful! Perhaps politics can work, and find interim solutions to impossible social problems. Peter. _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
