authentication protocols

[Pat Farrell]

At 06:14 PM 3/25/2002 -0500, John Saylor wrote:
>I'd like to find an authentication protocol that fits my needs:
>1. 2 [automated] parties
>2. no trusted 3rd party intemediary ['Trent' in _Applied_Crypto_]


You want to look at the work of Carl Ellison and folks on SPKI
It allows one party to authenticate the second. If that fits your case,
and it fits a lot, then you are done. No CA needed.

The SPKI stuff is at 
http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html


Pat


Pat Farrell                     pfarrell at pfarrell.com
http://www.pfarrell.com


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