Re: X.509 ACs vs. SPKI?

[Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I know of at least one Governemnt agency that is looking into this
technology for this exact use.

Russ


At 11:28 PM 6/1/99 -0400, Christopher Stacy wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:22:22 -0400, Russ Housley ("Russ") writes:
> Russ> There are a few real needs for encrypted attributes.
>
>Certainly in a military security context, there is a need for such secret
>authorizations: classification compartment identifiers are themselves 
>classified. 
>(I don't know if anyone is actually planning to use certificate attributes in
>such a direct mapping, but it would be very natural in a multi-mode 
>environment.)
>