Guess we all need implants deep in less-than-easily-operable areas to bind us to a digitally-accessible identity. This would make for an interesting set of user-based trust-anchoring paradigms, at least.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bickn...@ufp.org> > >> SSL certificates could be used this way today. >> >> SSH keys could be used this way today. >> >> PGP keys could be used this way today. >> >> What's missing? A pretty UI for the users. Apple, Mozilla, W3C, >> Microsoft IE developers and so on need to get their butts in gear >> and make a pretty UI to create personal key material, send the >> public key as part of a sign up form, import a key, and so on. > > Yes, but you're securing the account to the *client PC* there, not to > the human being; making that Portable Enough for people who use and > borrow multiple machines is nontrivial. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer
