[p2p-hackers] P2P Authentication

[Alen Peacock]

On 10/26/05, zooko at zooko.com <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>
> Where is the evidence of this bit about "traditional PKI working"?  As far as
> I've observed, traditional PKI works barely for small, highly centralized,
> hierarchical organizations and not at all for anything else.  Am I missing some
> case studies of PKI actually working as intended?

  Well, there are a number of *large*, highly centralized,
hierarchical organizations which use it extensively :) (such as MIT
for instance).  But I don't know that it "works as intended" even for
them -- usability, certificate management by users, etc. are all still
big enough issues that I'd say it would be hard to argue with you on
that point.

  Alen