Surveillance, secrecy, and ebay

2008-07-26 Thread Matt Blaze
One of the less-discussed risks of widespread surveillance is not just the abuse or misuse of intercepted content and meta- data by the government, but its accidental disclosure. As more and more private data gets collected, and as it sits around for longer and longer, it becomes inevitable that

Re: The PKC-only application security model ...

2008-07-26 Thread Peter Gutmann
Nicolas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Advice on how to generate self-signed certs for this purpose would be good for an FYI, or even a BCP. I don't think we need extensions to any protocols that support PKI to support bare PK (though some protocols have both, e.g., IKE). It's been around