Re: [therightkey] Notes on notaries

Carl Wallace <carl@redhoundsoftware.com> Fri, 10 February 2012 14:19 UTC

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:19:19 -0500
From: Carl Wallace <carl@redhoundsoftware.com>
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On 2/10/12 9:13 AM, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:

>Yes, I am aware of them.
>
>The problem with LTANS was that the catenate cert technology was still
>encumbered at the time and there was a company formed to exploit the
>patents that was very aggressive in filing lawsuits, including
>lawsuits over stuff that they clearly had no claim to.
>
>
>I was just going through the LTANS work to see if there was stuff we
>could use.
>
>The big reason to not use LTANS is that they use XML signature. It
>made sense for their approach but I don't see it as really working
>very well with the catenate technology. You would have to fire up an
>XML parser on each hop.

There were two evidence record formats defined by LTANS, one in ASN.1 and
(later) one in XML.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4998 - ERS

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6283 - XMLERS