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Re: draft-housley-binarytime-00.txt

To: Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: draft-housley-binarytime-00.txt
From: Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:18:21 -0400
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Peter:

You are asking about the signing-time signed attribute.

My comments were about the use of BinaryTime in general.

Russ

At 09:13 AM 9/15/2004, Peter Sylvester wrote:

> Comparison of a date/time value in a protocol to the current time from the
> operating system seems very obvious to me.

And that comparison should lead to what result? The signature is too old,
not yet valid? What application are you thinking about? secure NTP?

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