[485] in WWW Security List Archive
Common Key Ring file format - update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Wed Mar 1 12:39:35 1995
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
cc: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
In-reply-to: Your message of "01 Mar 1995 02:24:28 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 15:05:36 +0900
From: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@dxal18.cern.ch>
Reply-To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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Hello,
I have expanded the spec on the common key ring format. Rather than post it
again here is the URL:-
http://dxal18.cern.ch/WWW/Security/Documentation/rfc-keyring.html
The idea is to provide a mailcap type functionality for certificates. The RIPEM
and PGP formats are not extensible enough for the needs of the Web. Associating
icons with certificates is really essential to make the browsers easy to use. It
would be best if the certificates incorporated the icons but X.509 is arround
for a while :-(
Phill
