Hello,
I have had a look at Identity Based Encryption but I have not been able to
find out whether there are any protecting patents. It appears that the
breakthrough happend just two years ago with the work of Beneh and Franklin
[1] and there exist an open source implementation of their scheme
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Hack Hawk wrote:
So what they're saying is that your PRIVATE key is stored on a server
somewhere on the Internet?!?!
No, this (like Kerberos) works best in a federated model. Each
organization (or group of organizations that trust a common third
party and have mechanisms
also sprach C. Wegrzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.07.08.2324 +0200]:
This is the same approach used in the Authentica system but it is
deployed in an enterprise environment.
Sure, but this doesn't make it any more secure. I only know very
little about Authentica, but it also doesn't strike my
