[e2e] peer to peer, e2e, PKI authentication, trust chain discovery, management and capabilities exchange

[David P. Reed]

Francois - The sarcastic answer is "walled gardens" based on 
"firewalls".  That is, it's not in the interest of anyone but us 
out-of-favor hackers to focus on security and resiliency solutions that 
don't involve the operators.
The operators are heavily invested in marketing and selling "security" 
(the latest ridiculous idea is IRAP, the next-most-recent is elimination 
of the "analog hole" in DRM solutions that involve  the transport in 
every aspect of the application's business).

So instead of true resilience and security, we get operators who think 
they should "provide" security - after all they "provide" the whole damn 
Internet, don't they?

I spend a lot of time with operators through the MIT Communications 
Futures Program.   *None* of their management seem interested in 
peer-to-peer solutions to security issues.  However, some of the 
equipment vendors (those that dare to wave a sharp stick towards the eye 
of Verizon Wireless, their slavemaster) are exploring edge-based 
security solutions, which Verizon promptly removes.

- David

Francois Menard wrote:

>
> What is the latest state of the art thinking towards peer to peer, 
> e2e, PKI authentication, trust chain discovery, management and 
> capabilities exchange.