Re: Message From KO/Office

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:29 AM -0700 5/16/96, Keiser, Christopher wrote:
>the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) standard.  The problems
>you list are solved.  In short, there are no key management
>problems because there is no key management.  There is a
>hierarchy of trust of key signatures. In other words, if there

	Pardon me for being a stickler on this point but the structure and
operation that provides that hierarchy of key signature trust is very much
a key management mechanism.  Based on the history of trying to provide one,
starting with the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) effort, the lesson is that
this hiearchy is very difficult to create, formally.  That's not a surprise
since it is really a global, formal, trust infrastructure and
infrastructures are USUALLY difficult to create.

d/

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