Seminar, 20th May 1997

[ Changed 16th May 1997 ]

Speaker:

Carl Ellison, CyberCash Inc.

Date:

Tuesday 20th May at 16:15

Place:

Room TP4, Computer Laboratory

Title:

Secure Transfer of Trust

For a decade, people have viewed the binding of names to keys as the only problem. I will argue that names are almost meaningless in the context of the global Internet, and that we need rather to transfer authorisation securely from one entity to another. I will discuss two new attempts to do this, namely SDSI and SPKI.