At 10:37 -0700 5/23/05, william(at)elan.net wrote:
You do need "trusted third party" to act as PKI root signer. We're lucky
because unlike other places, we do have hierarchy with ip addresses and
ASNs and NIR is the "root" organization.
Don't confuse cryptography with security.
You need one trusted third party to arrange for the cryptography to
scale (work). You need a different third party to help authenticate
(secure) the routing data.
IMHO, you don't necessarily want these two third parties to be the same.
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