IP: Re: Two security related articles: [risks] Risks Digest 21.30

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Re: IP: Two security related articles: [risks] Risks Digest 21.30
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:46:56 -0500
>From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@ccr.org>
>
>
>the nasty little truth being brought to light by the Verisign mess
>is that while PKI works fine on the white board, it actually
>doesn't work in the real world.  that nasty little verification
>operation gets slower and slower and slower with each addition to
>the CRL, and the network traffic goes up and up and up doing it.
>
>the sooner people realize that Public Key just won't work at
>any kind of scale the sooner we get on with doing something
>different
>
>         cheers
>         -mo



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