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Re: RFC 2792 on Key and Signature Encoding for KeyNote (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Blaze)
Fri Mar 10 09:19:50 2000
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:01:34 -0500
From: Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>
FYI, RFC-2792 is also available on the web at
http://www.crypto.com/papers/rfc2792.txt
As the title implies, this document specifies the standard encoding for RSA
and DSA keys used as KeyNote principal identifies, and also specifies their
IANA-reserved keyword prefixes.
People implementing KeyNote interpreters or writing their own signing and
verification code will definitely want to look at this. Everyone else can
probably safely ignore it. The reference for the KeyNote language itself
remains RFC-2704, and is probably more interesting reading.
RFC-2704, for those who might not have seen it, is also available at the usual
RFC repositories, and also from:
http://www.crypto.com/papers/rfc2704.txt
For more information on KeyNote, check out
http://www.crypto.com/trustmgt/kn.html
-matt
> from the RFC distribution list:
>
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>
> RFC 2792
>
> Title: DSA and RSA Key and Signature Encoding for the
> KeyNote Trust Management System
> Author(s): M. Blaze, J. Ioannidis, A. Keromytis
> Status: Informational
> Date: March 2000
> Mailbox: mab@research.att.com, ji@research.att.com,
> angelos@cis.upenn.edu
> Pages: 7
> Characters: 13461
> Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
> I-D Tag: draft-angelos-keynote-dsa-rsa-encoding-01.txt
>
> URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2792.txt
>
>
> This memo describes RSA and DSA key and signature encoding, and
> binary key encoding for version 2 of the KeyNote trust-management
> system.
>
