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Message-ID: <87lk1u4g1d.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:14:22 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: OpenSSH key blacklisting

* Tim Brown:

> Maybe I've missed something, in which case, shoot me down, but why
> unlike other services that make use of public key cryptography, does
> OpenSSH not have use a model which supports proper authorisation and
> revocation mechanisms?

I haven't seen a working revocation mechanism implemented elsewhere.
It's a very difficult problem.

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