On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:46 AM, neil.young <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > <snip> > In most cases, there's a centralized enrollment authority which doesn't > issue duplicates. > > </snip> > > Yes, I believe your claim for self-signed certs. But a centralized > enrollment server in an overlay which issues certs and guarantees no > duplicates can't always guarantee global uniqueness. It is likely, but not > literally guaranteed. The "globally" claim is what I doubt :)
This actually is not correct. If the authority pseudorandomly generates them (which it should) then the nodeids will in fact be statistically globally unique. -Ekr _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
