[liberationtech] [Freedombox-discuss] FBX Server/Client Communication Model and Threat Modeling

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 02/15/2013 10:25 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote:
>    For example, is it acceptable if the client's secret key be exposed
>    when the box is rooted by attackers?  (Probably not, but that does
>    let the host act as a trust proxy without relying on subkeys, or
>    other weird yet conceptually interesting trust models).

what's wrong with using subkeys or explicitly designating a trust proxy?
 it seems like the tradeoff (of having a rootable machine hold your
basic secret key identity material) is clear enough to make the use of
explicitly revokable proxies worth doing.

	--dkg