Standardization and renewability

[Thierry Moreau]

Hagai Bar-El wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Up till now I could come up with three approaches to solve this problem:
> 
> 1. Limit renewability to keying.

	Then you should study "A Note About Trust Anchor Key Distribution", see 
http://www.connotech.com/takrem.pdf. It allows to distribute public keys 
to be used, if need be, at a later time in a different context.

> 2. Generalize the scheme (like the SPDC concept, or MPEG IPMP), more or 
> less by making the standard part general, with non-standard "profiles".
> 3. Standardize sets of key management methods at once, so to have spares 
> for immediate switching.
> 
> [...]
> 

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