Re: Redux: Why I want to remove the null key (SIG)

[Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>]

% >% As the spec currently stands, a secured parent is not required to hold a
% >% key for a secured child, but is required to hold a NULL key (signed by the
% >% parent) for an unsecured child (that is not able to hold it's own NULL key).
% >         How does the parent learn that the child isnow secure
% >         and is can drop the NULL key?
% 
% when it decides to sign the child's key, that seems an obvious conclusion 
% to draw.
% if it doesn't want to sign the child's key, why should it consider it 
% secure, or ask anyone else to do that?

	How does the parent learn the child has a key that it should
	sign?

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--bill


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