[cap-talk] Rsa podcast on Why Identity Doesn't Matter

[Fred Spiessens]

Hi Marc,

Just a quick remark after listening to the podcast. I think you did  
very well in this short time.

  "let's throw out the authentication" can be confusing. You could  
say : "let's authenticate the key instead of the driver".  Then you  
could contrast the difficulty of preventing physical keys from being  
stolen or forged (by adding electronic key-recognition, using physical  
uncloneable functions, etc), to the ease with which unforgeable steal- 
proof references can be created, delegated (legally copied), and  
authenticated inside  computer systems, ( "Java's object references",  
"proper use of cryptography can extend reference-authentication beyond  
a single system")

I like the term "self authorizing references", an alternative could  
be:  "pre-authorized references" which, in my opinion, reflects more  
the assumption that the receiver easily recognizes the reference's  
authenticity, than the assumption that the reference would need no  
authentication at all.  I admit that "self authorizing references" is  
sexier.

cheers,

Fred.



Op 9-apr-09, om 19:41 heeft Stiegler, Marc D het volgende geschreven:

> For better and for worse, RSA invited me to do a podcast interview  
> on my upcoming RSA conference presentation Why Identity Doesn't  
> Matter. It is 6 minutes long, you can find it at
>
> https://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/podcast_series_rsa_conference_2009/2009/04/09/marc-stiegler-ess-301-why-identity-doesnt-matter
>
> I've been afraid to listen to it, actually, suspecting that I was  
> unable to deliver the message in this format in this amount of time.  
> But it is there, for your entertainment, such as it is.
>
> --marcs
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