17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Alex Strasheim wrote: | What's the advantage of using this url type system instead of "fully | qualified" certificates, ie., attaching all the keys and signatures to the | object? Doesn't the give and take with the key servers more than wipe out | the advantage of the smaller data object? | | Does the win come from solving the revocation problem? The win from a referenced system can come in two places. First is standard places for keys, so I can ask a host for its telnetd's key simply. Second is that I may already have cached some of the keys, and not need, for example, they key for toad.com/s/sendmail/ Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume