One benefit would be a secure, automatic exchanges without cleartext
authentication.
 
Tony


|I wonder what the benefit would be? (I can't parse "somewhat 
|protected")
|
|We need no encryption on the channel, as all the published 
|information is 
|public. The objects themselves (manifests, certs, CRLs, ROAs, ...) are 
|signed so you can catch tampering. Finally, the existence of manifest 
|provides source authentication. So there does not seem to be 
|any advantages 
|for this.
|
|OTOH, you *would* have to incorporate a completely separate 
|PKI in order to 
|authenticate hosts (potentially thousands of them).

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