RE: [xri] Question: Is there a standard way to compose an identifier for the public key of an object?

["Schleiff, Marty" <marty.schleiff@boeing.com>]

Hi Nat,

In the Metadata Types spec we're defining something similar to what you
describe. It's a metadata tag for HIT (a Host Identity tag in the Host
Identity Payload protocol - see
http://www.irtf.org/charter?gtype=rg&group=hip).

For example: ($t*hit*<hit-value>)

<hit-value> is a hash of a public key.

Also, we could define a new $t type specifically for public keys.
However, this could generate pretty long XRIs. 


Marty.Schleiff@boeing.com; CISSP
Associate Technical Fellow - Cyber Identity Specialist
Computing Security Infrastructure
(206) 679-5933

-----Original Message-----
From: Sakimura, Nat [mailto:n-sakimura@nri.co.jp] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:26 AM
To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xri] Question: Is there a standard way to compose an
identifier for the public key of an object?

Hi all, 

I have a question. 

Is there a standard way to compose an identifier for the public key of
an object?

For example, it would be very nice if I can be assured that I will get a
public key for =bob by just doing =bob*(+public_key) or something. Then,
without any prior knowledge about =bob, I can fetch his public key for
bunch of processing. 

Cheers, 

Nat

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