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

In message <20020822142836.A92148@mail.webmonster.de>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" wr ites:

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)