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Re: Certificate authentication
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:01:41PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost> writes:
>
> >the position of the WG chair is that he'd very much like to find someone
> >willing to write a document on the topic. everyone who has stepped forward
> >to do this hasn't delivered yet.
> >
> >"Please send text."
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. What sort of text do you need here? Just something to define the format
> for the cert and the signature? That should be simple enough, however...
>
> 2. Does anyone really care about this? As my previous post indicated,
> interest in this seems pretty much nonexistant, is it worth doing a draft
> that no-one cares about? To use the tree-in-a-forest analogy, if I send in
> a draft and no-one implements it...
Well I'm actually for the simple approach at the moment:
rip all text referring to certificates from the current draft.
DF
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