[cryptography] Apple Keychain (was Keyspace: client-side encryption for key/value stores)

Hi Peter, In a perfect world, yes. However having an OS-provided, standardised mechanism that gets things mostly right (Apple Keyring) is far, far better than forcing every developer to invent their own one (Unix and to a lesser extent Windows), which 90% will get wrong. I'm curious which

Re: [cryptography] Security Pop-Up of the Day

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:37:42AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: Email client generates private/public keypair. Sends public key to CA server. CA server certifies that the owner of the private key corresponding to this public key is capable of receiving email at the address, emails