RE: New draft - NULL Public Key Signatures

[Michael Myers <MMyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ambarish,

Does this proposal require X.509 certificates?  Or is it the case that the
draft, when finalized, will propose a non-X.509 approach to public key
management?

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ambarish Malpani [mailto:ambarishm@valicert.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 4:16 PM
> To: ietf-pkix@imc.org
> Subject: New draft - NULL Public Key Signatures
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Guys,
>     Given the traffic on this list, it sounds like this IETF is
> going to be a pretty boring one. :-)
> 
> I have just submitted an individual draft about NULL Public Key
> Signatures, which I hope will be part of this working group soon
> (make things at the PKIX meeting more interesting).
> 
> The main (serious) reason for this draft, is to allow people to
> describe data items that may be signed or unsigned more easily
> in ASN.1.
> 
> Also, having a NULL algorithm is asthetically pleasing.
> 
> So here it is.
> 
> Please send all your flames/comments to this list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ambarish
> 
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