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Is PGP X.509's secret weapon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Apr 30 17:41:21 2009
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Cc: jon@callas.org
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:26:10 +1200
I was just reading through the WiMAX PKI documentation [0]... this uses PGP to
issue device and server X.509 certificates for use in WiMAX networks:
"Name" is an identifying name for the recipient that will be used as an
authenticated identity by the CA signing system. This is the identifier by
which the CA system identifies which PGP key is used to encrypt the
deliverable certificates and keys.
The WIMAX Forum will notify Authorized Users of the completion of their
order via email. Certificates will be delivered as an encrypted PGP archive.
The private key of the Authorized User's PGP key is required to decrypt it.
There's nothing technically wrong with this, it just kinda says it all for
X.509 that you need to use PGP to get it going. I can just see PGP Corp's new
marketing slogan: "PGP: Making X.509 possible".
(Jon, if you guys print shirts with something like this on it, I want one :-).
Peter.
[0] "WiMAX Certificate Authority Users Overview", WiMAX Forum, 2008(?).
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