A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Public Key Checking Protocol Author(s) : Stephen Farrell Filename : draft-farrell-kc-00.txt Pages : 6 Date : 2012-02-16 Some asymmetric key generation implementations do not use sufficient randomness giving rise to a number of bad public keys, for example with known factors, being used on the Internet. This memo specifies [[for now: just sketches]] an experimental protocol that could be used by a private key holder to talk to a server that knows the values of (some of) those bad keys that have been seen in the wild. The protocol only allows a holder of the relevant private key to request information, as doing otherwise could weaken the overall security of the Internet and also considers confidentiality and privacy as important requirements, as information that a given bad public key is associated with a particular identifier could also weaken the security of the Internet. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-farrell-kc-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-farrell-kc-00.txt _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
