From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Sorace Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Message-Id: <6CA49D5A-AAE5-433C-AEF4-8497E774681A@9srv.net> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 08:30:48 -0400 References: <5595227C.4090504@tfwno.gf> In-Reply-To: <5595227C.4090504@tfwno.gf> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] replace p9sk1 with something better(9front) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5d1de928-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Personally, I think two separate things are called for. 1) A straight-forward update to use AES 2) Some public key system. The p9sk1 *model* is great, and it'd be a real shame to drop it. Doing the u= pgrade and teaching should be easy, although there's tedious work in telling= all the things to start using it, The fun/interesting parts live in that second one, though. Lots of questions= , starting with deciding if something existing might make sense to import (I= nferno's public key system is the obvious first thing to look at there, but i= ts details are dusty in my head). Public key systems have different enough p= roperties that it'd be good to have both, in cases where one or the other fi= ts the use case better.