Re: introducer trust model, Was: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <20020822142836.A92148 () mail webmonster de>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" wr
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> i am not an expert in this field, but i think that a generic standard
> for this kind of trust model is long overdue, the only application
> nowadays out there in the wild using it being pgp's model of the web of
> trust.=20

I doubt that it would work well -- one "mole" would suffice for many 
large penetrations.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
                http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)