In other words, they mitigate risk. If we talk in terms of risk and risk alone as I proposed we can put numbers on things and use that as a basis for an objective comparison of the schemes.
You have three separate degrees of freedom and no principle to compare them by so putting numbers on your scheme isn't possible. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Chris Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Separation of duties - increases the number of trusted parties >> No sequential access - increases the number of trusted parties >> No lone zone - increases the number of trusted parties. > > But they can reduce the extent to which you must trust any one entity, > and can make it a bit easier to determine their trustworthiness (such > as by making them easier to audit). And that can be a net win. -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/ _______________________________________________ therightkey mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/therightkey
