Author: Mike Hearn 2014-03-05 10:18:41
Published on: 2014-03-05T10:18:41+00:00
BitPay is developing a new standard for authentication based on bitcoin-like addresses as they believe that X.509, the current standard, should be abandoned. They hope to work with the community to establish a complete, decentralized authentication protocol. To support this sentiment, two articles have been written; one examines commonly proposed alternative ideas to X.509 such as web of trust and perspectives/convergence, while the other is a summary of well-known crypto-usability research papers published over the past 10-15 years, covering SSL and PGP. Additionally, a book called Security & Usability by O'Reilly contains 34 papers and essays on the topic.
Updated on: 2023-06-08T03:02:46.229985+00:00