Re: [woes] Naked Public Key, was: RE: Proposed charter, post-Quebec edition

Ben Adida <ben@adida.net> Mon, 08 August 2011 17:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [woes] Naked Public Key, was: RE: Proposed charter, post-Quebec edition
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On 8/8/11 10:38 AM, John Bradley wrote:
> We just can't assume that it is trivial to reemployment PKIX X.509
> processing in all new environments. Using public keys without PKIX, is a
> simpler task.

Exactly. And even the certificate format world could use a *much* 
simpler, more webby approach than X.509.

-Ben