Re: Certificate authentication

[Derek Fawcus <dfawcus%cisco.com@localhost>]

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