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Re: [Anima] on certification authorities.

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 26 June 2020 22:04 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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Subject: Re: [Anima] on certification authorities.
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:56:42PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
>     > Thank you.  Many people get it wrong, but X.509 and RFC 5280 (as well
>     > as the earlier versions in RFC 2459 and RFC 3280) all use
>     > {CA=} "certification authority".
> 
> I guess it might be worth spreading this point more widely :-)
> I'll all for stamping out the wrong expansions, even if it sometimes
> seems pendantic.
> 
> I'm told that Google is about to start their Cloud *Certificate*
> Authority.  If that happens, I believe that any chance to assert the
> term will be completely lost :-)

Then clearly they have not read the specs and have no idea what they're
doing!!1!  :^)  Just like with IpSec.

Nico
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