[2838] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: SSL and certificates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Petraitis)
Thu Aug 29 04:28:18 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:38:08 +0200
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@zoo.net>, trevor_sterritt@mail.amsinc.com
From: David Petraitis <davidp@mare.ch>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
At 10:09 27/08/96 -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>This is where a public key infrastructure (PKI) comes in. A PKI provides
>a means of distributing certificates so that both parties in a
>communication know who they're talking to. There are a couple of IETF PKI
>initiatives. The furthest along is PKIX, based on the X.509 standard. A
>newer one is SPKI, which is endeavoring to start from scratch.
Thank,s Marc for much ggod info. Can you give a pointer to the working
drafts for the PKI initiatives?
TIA and Regards,
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