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Supporting creating and validating cert chains #124

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yaronyg opened this issue Mar 21, 2015 · 0 comments
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Supporting creating and validating cert chains #124

yaronyg opened this issue Mar 21, 2015 · 0 comments
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yaronyg commented Mar 21, 2015

It's bad practice to constantly encrypt with your root key. It puts the key on a network connected process and it uses the key too much thus helping cryptoanalysis. So what we really want to do is have a root key and then follow that with a device key. To do that we need a way for the root key (which is the real identity) to sign the device key. Probably the easiest way to do this is via cert chains. So we need to be able to generate and validate cert chains.

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