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

[Francois Menard]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jon Crowcroft wrote:

> an interesting feature of the p2p trust management systems is  that while they only give you statistical trust (and
> some with do risk evaluation so you can use trust+risk to compute expected gain/loss like eBay etc),
> when there is an infrastructure too, they are as good as you can get, but configuration free...so much more
> deployable than traditional PKIs - of course, they have the problem that human understanding of risk is very poor
> but hey, whats new ?
>
> i can't wait to see an article on
> how many unlikely bad things can you experience before breakfast:
> the net effect from pier-to-peer, Phish _and_ spam? what a menu:-)

It seems that it scales in proportion of how much people, food and 
knowledge transfer you can mix during a breakfast key signing party.

-=Francois=-