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March 22, 2004
Thoughts on Identity
I have been thinking about identity managementy systems lately. I asked one of my trusted sources on such things, Eric Lindvall. He had some good pointers and thoughts about user/server authentication...
don't know if you've found these, but they're somewhat helpful
different points of view:
http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=631
http://www.pgp.com/company/ctocorner/
i assume you know about these guys:
http://www.voltage.com/technology/ibe.htm
if you're ready for some heavy reading, this hase some interesting
ideas:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-18.pdf
this is a general interesting list of whitepapers:
http://itpapers.zdnet.com/search.aspx?cid=22&tag=tu.sc.ont.dir1&x=40
what are people going to use encryption for?
is it ever going to come to a point that the email that goes between
my mother and i is encrypted? even if it were just clicking a button
on and off, would it even be worth doing?
it's just my general impression that people don't seem to feel they
have much to hide in general, and i would have to think part of that
is because they don't.
would the world be a safer place if everything was encrypted? likely,
but i don't think that it'll really happen until it's just an
automatic feature in hotmail (where it detects that you're talking
with someone who accepts encrypted email and automatically turns it
on).
the only problem with that, is that if you don't have the user
conciously aware that they are using encrypted data (if you don't
require extra or more stringent passwords to get at your private key,
etc) it basically defeats the purpose of most of the encryption: if
you can just type in the name of their dog as their password and get
into their email, which automatically shows you the decrypted versions
of their emails, what good did it do that it was encrypted?
so.. things are marginally improved -- people can't sniff email in
transit and see everyone's messages. so that's good.. but.. i don't
know who will pay for that incremental improvement.
e.
Posted by Martin at March 22, 2004 1:46 PM
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