FW: [Dundi] DUNDi popularity

[Michael Richardson]

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>>>>> "Anders" == Anders Brownworth <abrownworth-dundi at bandwidth.com> writes:
    Anders> It seems to me an IP might be too little to go on. I suppose
    Anders> an X.509 encryption layer in the protocol would remove any
    Anders> ambiguity, but then we forfeit some of the distributed
    Anders> nature of the system because we would require a certificate
    Anders> authority. But without a central authority of some sort,
    Anders> it's hard to see how we could eliminate error or fraud by
    Anders> purely technical means. Might be interesting to get a number
    Anders> of entities with 
    Anders> SS7 presence to validate possibly on an ongoing basis. I hate
    Anders> centralized, but...

  You need the PGP model instead.
  Every DUNDi node needs to be a CA/signer. You can have web-of-trust.

  You may also want to look at SPKI:
  (Rivest= R of RSA, Ylonen=SSH)

2692 SPKI Requirements. C. Ellison. September 1999. (Format: TXT=29569
     bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

2693 SPKI Certificate Theory. C. Ellison, B. Frantz, B. Lampson, R.
     Rivest, B. Thomas, T. Ylonen. September 1999. (Format: TXT=96699
     bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

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