Re: [pkix] SCEP vs CMC vs CMP

Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> Fri, 29 October 2010 01:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] SCEP vs CMC vs CMP
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At 2:31 PM +1300 10/29/10, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> writes:
>
>>SCEP is not your answer. It is narrowly limited to IPsec VPN boxes, and a
>>small subset of that market.
>
>Uhh, no it isn't, it was originally designed for that 15?-odd years ago but
>it's used all over the place.  The last time I used SCEP was to provision
>iPhones from a Microsoft Windows server, neither of which are IPsec VPN boxes.

Gaaaah. Thanks for the update. :-(

OK, so you still have three sores, ooozing different-colored (elided).