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Re: dissemination of public encryption certificates

jpierre@netscape.com (Julien Pierre) Wed, 13 August 2003 23:43 UTC

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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:23:47 -0700
From: jpierre@netscape.com
Subject: Re: dissemination of public encryption certificates
To: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
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Simon,

Simon Josefsson wrote on 08/12/2003, 4:26:

 > Julien, Alberto,
 >
 > There is a DNS RR for X.509 certificates (and CRLs), see RFC 2538.
 >
 > Unfortunately it doesn't include useful RR owner name guidelines to
 > make it work in practice.  I have made some clarifications for this in
 >
 > http://josefsson.org/draft-josefsson-pkix-dns.txt
 >
 > which also includes recommended owner names for S/MIME certificates.
 >

Thanks. This is very useful and I will look into it.

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