Re: CRIME Kerberos summation.

From: Toby (toby@private)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 12:03:33 PDT

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    Shaun Savage writes:
    
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    > The problem that I see is the the public workstation is "not secure"
    > ~ and having the community carry "secure eletronic ID" would cost too
    > much to impliment.   This would rule out public key systems,    so the
    > login ID and password is the best for this semi secure enviroment.  I
    > would like a system that has fine grain Access Control per user.  
    > I was thinking about using kerberos different services for the access
    > control.    
    
    A "secure electronic ID" could be nothing more than a floppy with your
    private key on it, encrypted with a symmetric key based on a long
    passphrase.
    I know people who do this with their PGP keys...
    
    t
    



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