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RE: dissemination of public encryption certificates

"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com> Thu, 14 August 2003 18:39 UTC

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From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>
To: "'helm@fionn.es.net'" <helm@fionn.es.net>, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>
Cc: 'Steve Hole' <steve.hole@messagingdirect.com>, Julien Pierre <jpierre@netscape.com>, ietf-smime@imc.org
Subject: RE: dissemination of public encryption certificates
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:16:47 -0700
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> Leaving aside who supports what and why, don't understand the
> implied conflict between xkms and scvp.  They seem to do two 
> different things -- I want to find a cert for helm@fionn.es.net
> to send email to that entity; I have a cert from helm@fionn.es.net --
> what is it good for?  I didn't think SCVP would help much with
> the first, and I clearly don't see what XKMS would do with the
> second question.  Would like a better understanding of this.

Thats quite a good description of SCVP.

XKMS does not answer that question because I can't think of a situation
where is would be of interest. The certificate is simply a data object that
is created to establish the trustworthiness of a key. Applications don't ask
'what is this good for?', they ask 'how do I do this task?'.


		Phill

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