Re: PKI and S/MIME

Steve Hole <steve.hole@messagingdirect.com> Fri, 15 August 2003 16:23 UTC

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From: Steve Hole <steve.hole@messagingdirect.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:50:02 -0700
To: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: PKI and S/MIME
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 01:41:22 +0200 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:

> But this isn't an important point, and I don't see anything that can
> be seen as a _disadvantage_ for DNS compared to LDAP or XKMS here.
> Perhaps this tangental issue only distract us from the big picture.

Agreed.   I think that the provision of a simple-to-use API would be a 
huge help here.

Cheers.
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Steve Hole
Chief Technology Officer - Billing and Payment Systems
ACI Worldwide
<mailto:holes@ACIWorldwide.com>
Phone: 780-424-4922