Re: features, use, deployment?
warwick (wford@bnr.ca)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:28:00 -0500
Nortel's Entrust PKI product line has been shipping commercially for over a
year, and the X.509 v3 version, supporting flexible (hierarchical or
web-configured as you please) cross-certification, for over a month now. We
also have a flexible attitude to enveloping formats - the currently shipping
product uses PEM; we are currently implementing MSP and S/MIME as
alternatives. We shall add MOSS if there is sufficient customer demand.
(This is not to suggest that we would not like to see a single, agreed
standard format - we would welcome progress on this at the workshop.)
Carlisle Adams of Nortel will be at the workshop and can provide further
information.
Warwick
>Well, we've gotten some significant discussion about MSP, which isn't a
>major candidate for commercial Internet mail use, as nearly as I can tell.
>(I've asked several proponents to cite vendor product plans and none has
>yet appeared.)
>
>And we've had just a tad of discussion about PGP. And perhaps a comment or
>two about S/MIME and MOSS.
>
>I'd like to hear comparative comments from folks and especially like to
>hear about usage experience and/or deployment plans. Have any of the
>end-user folks done an evaluation and made a choice? If so, why? Any
>deployment activities done or underway? How are they going?
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Warwick Ford, Nortel Secure Networks E-mail: wford@bnr.ca
PO Box 3511, Station C Tel: (613) 765-4924
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