> >I agree that crypto capabilities are expensive to produce, but that may
be
> >reason to postpone creating them until they are actually needed.
>
> In E, we indeed treat cryptographic capabilities in the
> lightweight and disposable fashion Norm describes as the KeyKOS style...
> But please don't assume SPKI is representative of the
> costs of cryptographic capabilities.
The costs I was thinking about were not storage costs, but encryption time when fabricating the key. Is fabrication time really low enough that capabilities can be created willy nilly in E?
Perhaps I should be asking: is the excessive capability creation time in SPKI a problem confined to SPKI?
shap