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Re: I have a technical idea/change for the ECC draft



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On Apr 14, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>
> Jon Callas <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I have heard it said that there have been no DSA certificates  
>> created in the
>> real world, only ones needed for "interop" testing for the  
>> "mandatory"
>> algorithm.
>
> There are DSA certs created for USG use but they're from a parallel  
> universe
> where X.509 PKI works just fine, people still send X.400 email, and  
> everything
> is predicated on the X.500 Directory, so I don't think it's a good
> representative example :-).

Which is precisely my point. They are the mandatory-to-implement, but  
they exist with Bizarro Superman.

	Jon


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