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Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Tue Dec 5 23:45:58 2000
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:06:11 -0500
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
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To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
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"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
> Purely procedurally, if you tried to get it published as an RFC it
> would probably be bounced by the IESG -- there's a policy against RFCs
> that are or appear to be end-runs around a working group. If something
> is in a WG's area, it's up to them to publish it.
But this was rejected because it wasn't within the WG's scope (PKIX is X.509 based
PKI, PGP certificates are out of scope). I suspect that the IESG would entertain a
PGP CA document.
-Jeff
P.S. If you want to play with a hack S/MIME CA, try www.black-helicopter.org/bh
Its a complete hack I put together (so be gentle).
-Jeff
