Re[2]: OCSP-X vs SCVP

[Timothy Fisher <timothyf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A general comment:

A gradual move towards XML and away from ASN1 in the PKI world would
be a great benefit to the developer community and I believe the
e-business community at large...
XML would be a great step in opening this technology to a wider base
of expertise.

-- 
Sincerely,
 Timothy Fisher                       mailto:timothyf@mindspring.com



Friday, November 10, 2000, 2:14:56 AM, you wrote:

MS> Marc Branchaud wrote:
>> 
>> The non-PKI folk want their XML apps to use
>> PKI (as do the PKI folks, I might add), but they don't want to bloat their
>> apps with an ASN.1 toolkit.

MS> Most times it's easier to find a mature XML kit than a ASN.1 kit.
MS> But IMHO ASN.1 is not the main problem when deploying this
MS> X.509-based stuff.

MS> Ciao, Michael.