The summer of PKI love

[Ben Laurie]

Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
> Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> 
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/10/33OPstrategic_1.html
> 
> 
> The page goes on to say:
> 
> "One reason for PKI's slow uptake has been the lack of two kinds of 
> portability. It hasn't been easy to move cryptographic keys from one 
> machine to another, or to use credentials issued by one institution at 
> another. But as we learned at the summit, there's been progress on both 
> fronts."
> 
> If I remember correctly, portability is not necessarily a thing to 
> strive for here, because it means that not only your certificates will 
> be transported from A to B, but also the corresponding private 
> information will have a tendency to leak all over the place.

Regardless of whether its a good idea, saying it is a problem seems to 
me to be complete bollocks. Moving keys around is generally easy.

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