the cold and the sickness
I stayed home yesterday and today--and I probably should have stayed home Monday as well, but I felt guilty about having so much vacation last week. Gah. *sigh* this week has felt wasted--hopefully I can go in to work tomorrow and kick some serious booty. Research needs to get done--both on the coding front and on the prospectus writing front. On the upside, I have made serious headway with TLS--I came, I saw, I conquered both Key and Trust managers. I think I can make them do what I want--the hard part is now defining exactly what it is that I want. I need to define the mechanism by which two unknown peers can establish some partial trust--enough to go through a TLS handshake, which normally requires a common root of trust (ie., a common root CA certificate). Absent a root of trust, we are open to MITM attacks....Sideband channels to the rescue! Eventually. For now, I think we assume the existence of a common root cert.