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Re: Certificates turn 30, X.509 turns 20, no-one notices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Tue Nov 25 21:48:30 2008
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
In-Reply-To: <E1L4pwB-0008Ar-Qr@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:47:31 -0800
On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> This doesn't seem to have garnered much attention, but this year
> marks two
> milestones in PKI: Loren Kohnfelder's thesis was published 30 years
> ago, and
> X.509v1 was published 20 years ago.
>
> As a sign of PKI's successful penetration of the marketplace, the
> premier get-
> together for PKI folks, the IDtrust Symposium (formerly the PKI
> Workshop and
> now in its eighth year) authenticates participants with... username
> and
> password, for lack of a working PKI.
>
> (OK, it's a bit of a cheap shot and it's been done before, but I
> thought it
> was especially significant this year :-).
Yeah, they should be using OpenID. :-)
Jon
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