[LINK] PKI Myth or Magic?

From: Bernard Robertson-Dunn (brd@austarmetro.com.au)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 15:33:58 EST


        In the blue corner we have:

PKI built on myths: expert
Karen Dearne
14 August 2001
The Australian
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2579351%5E1285,00.html

THE PKI industry has been built on mythology, according to IT security
consultant Roger Clarke.

"Regrettably, the emperor of conventional PKI has no clothes," he told the
Health Informatics Conference in Canberra last month.

...

        And in the red corner we have:

Public sector lights up PKI's horizon
By Pete Young
16 August, 2001 11:29
Australia
http://www.computerworld.com.au/idg2.nsf/a/0003A8C6?OpenDocument&n=e&c=CP

A worldwide spate of government tenders and the corporate rollout of
Windows 2000 is giving battered vendors in the public key infrastructure
(PKI) space new hope.

A "phenomenal" number of public sector PKI tenders have been called in the
past six months, says Sue Pontius, CEO of Silicon Valley company Spyrus
Technologies.

She was in Australia recently talking to online gaming organisations
interested in using PKI to control under-age and problem gambling.

...

-- 
I don't have a solution; but I do admire the problem.
-- unknown

Regards brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia brd@dynamite.com.au brd@austarmetro.com.au



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