jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake") writes:
>> The reason I wanted to use PGP is that I already have a PGP key. X.509
>> certificates are far too complicated (a certificate authority is a
>> useless extra step in my case).
>
> Complete side note but one feature that I brought up to my team a
> potentially useful would be to allow the use of ssh keys for
> authentication.
>
> SSH keys are far more prevalent, and they are understood even at the
> medium corporate level.
I haven't discussed this with Afilias folk, but that sure sounds like
an excellent thing to me. ssh keys are already in widespread use for
other forms of authentication; this seems an excellent re-use.
X.509 might be nice, too, eventually; ssh keys would be immediately
useful.
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