Re: Proposal for a new PKI model (At least I hope it's new)

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 09/07/03 

Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 02:29:58 +0200

Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> "John E. Hadstate" <jh113355@hotmail.com> writes:
> > http://crypto.stanford.edu/ibe/
> >
> > and pay particular attention to the "Technical Summary" link.
> >
> > The IP-address (or FQDN) would be used to generate the public key.
>
> If that's an IBE system as the term usually means, then some central
> authority has everyone's private key. That's not so great for the
> internet.

It does seem rather odd that the webpage has the following:

   However, because a central trusted server (or servers)
   knows every user's private key, we hope that over time
   users will migrate to traditional public-key cryptosystems.

So the authors of the scheme 'hope' (earnestly wish) that
the users would go away from it (if my English interpretation
of the above is correct) !!

M. K. Shen

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