[Cryptography] Help please, considering design of personal CA for PPE

[Guido Witmond]

On 06/17/14 03:02, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> So I am almost at the stage where I can loose PPE (Privacy Protected 
> Everything) onto the world.
> 
> I would like to do a sanity check on the design before starting to 
> get actual users since once you do that...
> 
> 
> The ideas are


> 1) Lifelong master root key, The hash of the public portion of this 
> key is the user's life long phingerprint. Cert has 100 year expiry, 
> subject + issuer name is the phingerprint

My shillings:

How many identities would each person have? One? Or as many as the like?

Can people wield one identity at one site and another at a different
site? Can sites collude to link these together?

What are your ideas on this?



Regards, Guido.

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