Sunday, December 29, 2002

Peter Gutmann: PKI - It's not dead, just resting Scott Loftesness posts: I was cleaning out my office this afternoon and stumbled across the issue of IEEE Computer that included Peter Gutmann's article on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). Stimulated (Praise Google!), I found his home page and his kind posting (PDF) of an even more comprehensive version of that article online. For anyone interested in better understanding PKI, Gutmann's article is a must read. His "godzilla crypto tutorial" is also an very useful piece of work. 6:40:26 AM

Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do. Joseph Turow has begun a crusade to de-capitalize the word Internet and, by extension, to acknowledge a deep shift in the way that we think about the online world. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology] Capitalization irked him because, he said, it seemed to imply that reaching into the vast, interconnected ether was a brand-name experience. "The capitalization of things seems to place an inordinate, almost private emphasis on something," he said, turning it into a Kleenex or a Frigidaire. "The Internet, at least philosophically, should not be owned by anyone," he said, calling it "part of the neural universe of life." But, he said, dropping the big I would sent a deeper message to the world: The revolution is over, and the Net won. It's part of everyone's life, and as common as air and water (neither of which starts with a capital). 6:23:30 AM