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

John Bradley <ve7jtb@ve7jtb.com> Mon, 08 August 2011 17:56 UTC

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That is a larger issue, that I prefer to leave for a later charter.

We both have specs (arguably competing ones) that require JOSE in a timely manner.  

Tide and the Web wait for no SDO:)

John

On 2011-08-08, at 1:42 PM, Ben Adida wrote:

> 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
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