We have started to think in terms of informal crytpo and loosening the way we think about coupling authentication and identity. By doing this we believe we can achieve better security in a number of cases, even if not ideal security.

Papers:

Mark Allman, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, Nicholas Weaver. The Strengths of Weaker Identities: Opportunistic Personas. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2007. Talk slides available.

(Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007; Updated: Wed Aug 08, 2007)