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AnonymousTue Sep 07 12:49:22 1999
In article <199502090413.UAA24481@largo.remailer.net>, eric@remailer.net writes:
> From: "Kipp E.B. Hickman" <kipp@warp.mcom.com>
>
> You are right here. However, our observation is that an interesting
> chunk of the world is moving towards using X.509 based certificate
> infrastructures for many things.
>
> It's that interesting chunk that RSADSI is pointing out to you. When
> you see the world through the eyes of a vendor ...
Actually we are getting strong interest from almost everybody but RSA.
I imagine that RSA may have some plans in this area, but what they are
is unknown to me.
> And you know, of course, that PEM really stands for Patent Extension
> Mechanism.
Har! Besides the certificate problems, are there other problems with
PEM that have prevented its adoption?
> I don't really blame you much. I mean TIPEM handles all the X.509
> stuff just fine and PGP can't get out even the simplest of libraries,
> or even a partial library.
Our implementation supports this X.509 stuff as well. We don't have a
DUA yet though...
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