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Re: [lamps] draft-ietf-lamps-samples: PKCS12 expertise needed (including objects for comparison)

Deb Cooley <debcooley1@gmail.com> Mon, 02 August 2021 16:01 UTC

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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:01:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: [lamps] draft-ietf-lamps-samples: PKCS12 expertise needed (including objects for comparison)
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Indeed - use PKCS#7.  Why are we importing keys and certs in this day and
age???

As for definite length over indefinite length encode - DER for the win.  I
agree w/ Ryan.

Updates to PKCS#12?  yuck.

As for RC2.... I'm sure 3keyTDES is better.  LOL  (note:  that was sarcasm)

Deb Cooley
decoole@nsa.gov

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 7:54 PM Ryan Sleevi <ryan-ietf@sleevi.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 4:47 PM Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> What should we replace pkcs12 with?
>>
>> It seems to be the only way to get client certificates into Firefox,
>> Chrome and
>> Java/Tomcat's keystore.
>> (I hate it)
>>
>
> What? No, that's not true.
>
> PKCS#7 is widely supported and avoids the "many forms" of PKCS#12's
> silliness. Or just import directly (e.g. PEM and PKCS#8).
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