Subject: Re: [woes] Naked Public Key, was: RE: Proposed charter, post-Quebec edition
From: Ben Adida <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:42:59 -0700
List-Id: "Web Object Encryption and Signing \(woes\) BOF discussion list" <woes.ietf.org>

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