RE: New draft - NULL Public Key Signatures

[Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,
    Good question.

Actually, if you read the draft, you actually might be able to
figure out that it is independent of X.509 or other certificates.
Just as RSA can work fine with any format of certification.

But still, a very good question.

Regards,
Ambarish


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Ambarish Malpani
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Myers [mailto:MMyers@verisign.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:08 AM
> To: Ambarish Malpani; ietf-pkix@imc.org
> Subject: RE: New draft - NULL Public Key Signatures
> 
> 
> 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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> > Ambarish Malpani
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> > ValiCert, Inc.                                  
> ambarish@valicert.com
> > 1215 Terra Bella Ave.                         
http://www.valicert.com
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