PKC in E-commerce (Was RE: Dua;l Key)

[Owen Blacker]

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> > > I am not sure how large you want the trials to be but I am sure
> > > that there are already many millions of transactions in which
> > > PKC based secure information exchange has been employed (the
> > > keys are short term keys that are not published but that is
> > > another matter). 
> >
> > Eh? There are short-term _symmetric_ keys, but the public keys
> > are long term (typically 1 year, in a server certificate). 
> 
> Good point - I should have said some of the keys are short term and
> are not published.  

Though, equally, not all of every transaction is (eg) SSL-based, with
a long term certificate on one end...   :o)


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Owen Blacker
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