PKI as implemented by SSL Certs is needlessly complicated, which is a big part of why no one has adopted it for end user authentication. Compare what I describe

PKI as implemented by SSL Certs is needlessly complicated, which is a big part of why no one has adopted it for end user authentication. Compare what I described above to the mess described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_infrastructure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_infrastructure A decentralized key system as ssh provides is much more appropriate for end users.