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The implementation of the agent-based PKI lays a authentication
foundation for agent security. Additionally, it brings to the construction
of PKI (not only for agent-based applications) with some advantages:
- It makes the construction of scalable authentication system much
more feasible by employing the security agents in a bottom up
fashion.
- It makes automatic inter-operation of multi-certificate
authentication system possible.
- It makes it much easier to customize certificate management
while relieving the workload for certificate users.
Naturally, there remain some open problems and issues that we discuss
in section 5.
Qi He
Wed Jan 28 06:23:23 EST 1998