ZUI and the Skype PKI

Hi, I’m Kurt Sauer, Skype’s CSO. Over the coming weeks, I’d like to talk about some of the different security features in Skype and where we’re going with them. This month (February 2006) marks my second year here, which, in Skype-years, is nearly an eternity. Over that time, we’ve been able to put on the street one of the largest functional PKI-based communications systems in the world, so I thought that talking about PKIs would be a good starting point.
While I suppose it isn’t the most glamorous piece of our products, the Skype PKI (public key infrastructure) is an important component of what makes Skype work. Last year, Brad Templeton described Skype’s PKI as a ZUI (Zero User Interface) system. (I liked the way he put it so much that I still have the original article bookmarked.)
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