Peter Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/10/2000 wrote
>
> I am engaged in an expansive and challenging authoring assignment
> regarding PKI's rationale in the large e-commerce plexus. I'm casting
> about for ideas on the killer PKI application. I'd like to hear any ideas
> - however wild or domesticated - in this space. I can repay all kindnesses
> with beer and whatever appreciations that providence provides I can bestow
> in the future.
The first thing something needs to be a killer application is to be an
application. The problem with PKI is that it isn't an application, it's a
system. A killer app needs to have a very specific purpose, and needs a
very immediate motivating factor for it's use. Think web browser.
I'm more than a little bit skeptical that the world has much use for PKI
just yet. PKI is useful for stopping active attacks, but right now almost
everything on the internet is subject to passive attacks. Fix the first
problem first, only then will it become clear how to solve the second
problem.
-Bram
