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Re: SPKI (WAS Re: Field slide attacks and how to avoid them.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Fri Sep 21 11:08:19 2001
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:08:43 -0700
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
From: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
Cc: Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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At 06:44 PM 9/20/2001 -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
>Thanks for the links, folks.
>
>> I confess I love SPKI, and I would love to know why we're not in a
>> sitation where it's in widespread use today.
>
>I believe HP's espeak uses (used?) SPKI as its authorization certs,
>but since they're chairing the Oasis SAML group that might change
>(but hence my spki.xsd query). I also think Intel's open source
>CDSA has some
>support for SPKI (been a long time since I looked at the source), so
>presumably they might be doing some stuff. One possible contender
>there, the Intel medical information protection project/company,
>recently shut down, however.
Both are true.
See http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html for links to both eSpeak
and CDSA.
>It'd sure be nice if Win2.5K replaced SIDs with SPKI :)
Yup.
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