Re: ldapv2-schema and CA Certificates

["Simonetti David" <simonetti_david@xxxxxxx>]

This is far off-topic for this list, but...if you had any idea just how
much a part the US DoD (and other nations' governments) has played in
developing and refining public key technology (in the names of SDNS,
MISSI, and DMS) you'd be far less proud of your interjections...now back
to more constructive work...

WHenry wrote:
> 
>  Is this DMS or the new Medium Assurance PKI (i.e. Netscape)? If you're
> referring to DMS my only comment would be: $1billion (and growing)and 10
> years later I guess that's what we paid for. Except, no one outside U.S.
> Govt (i.e. industry) is implementing DMS.
> 
>  Does anyone have any comment on the new Cylink PKI being fielded for the
> U.S. Postal Service? Maybe the functional requirements for USPS are
> different than those supported by PKIX and DMS...?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yuriy Dzambasow [SMTP:ydzambasow@spyrus.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 1998 2:06 PM
> > To:   Stephen Kent; WHenry
> > Cc:   ietf-pkix@imc.org
> > Subject:      RE: ldapv2-schema and CA Certificates
> >
> > In addition, there is currently over 100 CA workstations deployed today
> > within the DoD (all under one common Root), with more planned for
> > fielding.
> > This is a very real, fully operational, deployed base of CAs.
> >
> > Yuriy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ietf-pkix@imc.org [mailto:owner-ietf-pkix@imc.org] On Behalf
> > Of
> > Stephen Kent
> > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 1998 12:46 PM
> > To:   WHenry
> > Cc:   'ietf-pkix@imc.org'
> > Subject:      RE: ldapv2-schema and CA Certificates
> >
> > The first large scale U.S Gov PKI was established in the mid-80s and
> > served
> > about 500,000 secure telephone users, both in gov jobs and in the gov
> > contractor sector.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >

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David Simonetti, Booz·Allen & Hamilton Inc.