Yahoo releases internet standard draft for using DNS as public key server

Adam Fields fields at aquick.org
Tue May 25 17:49:39 EDT 2004


On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:07:43AM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
[...]
> yahoo draft internet standard for using DNS as a public key server
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-delany-domainkeys-base-00.txt

This sounds quite a lot like the ideas outlined in a paper I
co-authored in 1995, proposing the idea of a "trustmaster" for each
domain, keyed to the DNA hierarchy.

http://www.hedge.net/fields/projects/trust/trust.pdf
http://www.hedge.net/fields/projects/trust/trustfig.pdf


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