Notes from PKI Labs/PKI Workshop Concall

[Steve Hanna <steve.hanna@sun.com>]

Here are my notes from the PKI Labs/PKI Workshop
conference call on Monday, October 21.

* Krishna Sankar was especially enthusiastic about
  our work. He encouraged us to have a paper and a
  panel at the PKI Workshop. Krishna also asked me
  to send him the full list of obstacles that we
  brainstormed last spring while preparing the survey.
  I'll do so.

* For educational materials, focus on applications
  and scenarios. Not technology.

* What do the respondents mean by electronic commerce?
  I said we don't know. We may need to do some more work
  there.

* What do the respondents mean by document signing?
  I explained that we *did* get more details about that.
  Neal McBurnett said we should develop examples and
  scenarios. Then standards and tools (open source or not)
  can be developed from those.

* Neal McBurnett said Open Source software is very
  important for driving PKI adoption. A lot of projects
  start small as informal pilots. Without free software
  (CA software and document signing and email...), this
  can't happen and adoption is slowed.

* Krishna asked what research opportunities were uncovered
  by this survey. I said I don't know. I'll have to think
  about that.

So there's some more input for our discussions.

I hope we can meet soon! We have a lot of things to
talk about.

Thanks,

Steve

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