From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 17 13:26:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7DD37BD62; Wed, 17 May 2000 13:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA89256; Wed, 17 May 2000 13:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:26:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Duane H. Hesser" Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: New host key for freefall! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 May 2000, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > Sorry to bust in in the middle like this. This is the first message > on this topic I've seen, so I haven't seen the "previous material", > thus the comments/questions below may be irrelevant to the discussion > at hand (if so, please forgive the intrusion). It spilled over from a discussion on -committers which went off-topic. We were talking about the benefits and obstacles to establishing a FreeBSD CA for "project use". > For some time, I have had an interest SDSI (Simple Distributed > Security Infrastructure) by Ronald Rivest and Butler Lampson. It > has a simple elegance which appeals to me, although I have not yet > had much opportunity to work with it. > > Would this infrastructure be of interest in your current discussion? Frankly, there's no shortage of proposals for a public-key infrastructure flying around the internet, so I'm not sure what the particular benefits of this one are :-) Plus, the license on the software disallows commercial use, which means it can't be integrated into FreeBSD as part of a larger infrastructure :-/ Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message