Re: [pkix] purpose of LDAP in PKI

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 20 February 2013 23:44 UTC

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Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> writes:

>What was never finished was the one mechanism that a client can apply to
>translate an SMTP email recipient address to the corresponding S/MIME
>configuration (including cert).

https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000966.html

(OK, so it'd need to be written up as an RFC).

Peter.