[2840] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: SSL and certificates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Branchaud)
Thu Aug 29 11:38:55 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:55:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@zoo.net>
To: David Petraitis <davidp@mare.ch>
cc: trevor_sterritt@mail.amsinc.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608290639.IAA93004@mail.iprolink.ch>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, David Petraitis wrote:
>
> 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?
I've created a PKI References page at
http://www.zoo.net/~marcnarc/PKI/
It lists almost all the PKI work there is, although I haven't updated it
in a month or so, so it is missing a couple of things (most notably
references to DNSSEC work).
Marc
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