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Re: [pkix] PKCS #8 as an RFC

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 11 November 2009 07:22 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: [pkix] PKCS #8 as an RFC
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Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com> writes:

>The following draft updates PKCS#8 to add a CMS content type, a public key
>field, and address some of the comments Pasi raised during his IESG review (
>https://datatracker.ietf.org/idtracker/draft-kaliski-pkcs8/comment/80097/):
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat-02
>
>There's also an algorithm companion document that addresses some more of
>Pasi's comments:
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat-algs-00
>
>Comments are welcome on both.

Shouldn't these also reference (or even use) PKCS #15, which is the updated
form of both PKCS #8 and PKCS #12?  It seems like the PKCS #8 changes are just
a very gradual attempt to move it towards what PKCS #15 has already done for a
decade or so...

Peter.

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