... My slides for the working group meeting were all text. I can furnish PowerPoint on request. I am enclosing the text here in the body of this mail....
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 1, 1998 5:36 pm
383
With no intention to start a cryptography thread here, I want to report that answers to some questions that have been asked on Holocomm are available at (very...
Ed Gerck
egerck@...
Apr 1, 1998 7:59 pm
384
... Hal> I wonder if this is really necessary. How hard would it be Hal> for the verifier to hash everything it sees in the sequence? Hal> How long are...
Michael Richardson
mcr@...
Apr 1, 1998 11:37 pm
385
... One thing is clear to me, as I implement code: the opcodes in a (sequence...) assume one particular reduction engine but you might not choose to implement...
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 2, 1998 1:27 am
386
Reading the various drafts of the sdsi & spki efforts I noticed that a large part of the documents is devoted to the definition of ad-hoc spki syntax. The...
Francesco Zambon
zambon@...
Apr 2, 1998 12:46 pm
387
... Francesco, the choice between S-expression and XML has been raised before. W3C would like us to use XML. It should be possible to write a translator from...
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 2, 1998 7:16 pm
388
I think at this point we really have to stick with the s-expr syntax. We're really way to far along in the process to change anything at this point. Perry ... ...
Perry E. Metzger
perry@...
Apr 2, 1998 8:35 pm
389
I just choose your project for my term paper. I subscribed to the mailing list to track your progress. Thanks for the proposel to join the research, Cheryl...
Cheryl Sewell
caziz1@...
Apr 3, 1998 4:45 am
390
... My reading of the export regs say that since SPKI is only for authentication, you don't need an export license or a conversation with the commerce...
Bill Frantz
frantz@...
Apr 3, 1998 7:30 am
391
... I think that's right. Just one additional point. Althought DSA does not provide encryption per se, give secret keys X1 and X2 (random 160 bits) and...
Tony Bartoletti
azb@...
Apr 4, 1998 2:20 am
392
... Debating whether a unique identifier can be called a name is indeed sterile and uninteresting. Assume for the moment that it can. Then we have: A key is...
David P. Kemp
dpkemp@...
Apr 6, 1998 5:42 pm
393
I believe the time for this discussion has passed... Perry...
Perry E. Metzger
perry@...
Apr 6, 1998 6:00 pm
394
... I just reread all of this thread. Here's what I've got: [snip] ... This dates to the days, not so long ago :o, when I didn't know that PKCS-1 encodes the...
Matt Fredette
fredette@...
Apr 6, 1998 11:13 pm
395
... Matt, I'm having a really hard time reading your message to see what it is you currently believe. Is the above text a quote or your current position? In...
EKR
ekr@...
Apr 7, 1998 12:13 am
396
... Matt, the reason to provide this outside the interior of an RSA block would be if the hash needs to be computed by one computer while another does the RSA ...
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 7, 1998 4:28 pm
397
... Eric, Matt's wording was a little muddled here. PKCS-1 *is* the encoding algorithm he was talking about. What you and I agreed was that the PKCS-1 needs...
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 7, 1998 4:29 pm
398
... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ... I don't understand your point here. PKIX Part 1, section 7.2.1 (RSA Signature Algorithm) clearly says to...
Marc Branchaud
marcnarc@...
Apr 7, 1998 6:41 pm
399
... Yeah, I had a hard time presenting that bit. It's both a quote of Carl and something that I agree with. Carl helped me out with: ] Message-Id:...
Matt Fredette
fredette@...
Apr 7, 1998 6:48 pm
400
... You're right. This is a thinko. I meant to say 'SPKI' here. PKIX, of course, does use PKCS-1 everywhere that it's appropriate. SPKI, however, uses it's own...
EKR
ekr@...
Apr 7, 1998 7:41 pm
401
... Hmmm. Good catch. That is all we need. So, you've won me over and I'll vote for dropping the separate structure. Does anyone want that separate structure...
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 7, 1998 7:45 pm
402
... FWIW, BSAFE implements RSA with SHA-1 and uses the same OID for SHA-1 that SET uses (which I assume to be the official one). ... Version: PGP for Personal...
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 7, 1998 7:53 pm
403
... Here's what I think this morning. Again, from draft-ietf-spki-cert-structure-05.txt: [snip] 3.8.3.1 <sig-val> <sig-val> depends on the <pub-sig-alg-id> --...
Matt Fredette
fredette@...
Apr 8, 1998 4:06 pm
404
... cryptosystem, ... I'll have to remain ambivalent on this suggestion until I see what it does to the code. Does any other implementor have an opinion on...
Carl Ellison
cme@...
Apr 8, 1998 7:49 pm
405
This question was raised last week and discussed in e-carm. It's often said that a good lawyer should be able to argue both sides of an issue... Though I am...
Ed Gerck
egerck@...
Apr 10, 1998 6:57 pm
406
... Actually not the case! A CA certainly wants the liability to be well understood and defined but avoiding liability altogether would mean nobody would want...
Phillip Hallam-Baker
hallam@...
Apr 10, 1998 8:15 pm
407
As much as I might agree with the contents of this, I think the general topic is no longer relevant to the SPKI mailing list. ... [...]...
Perry E. Metzger
perry@...
Apr 10, 1998 9:07 pm
408
... NOTE: This discussion is possibly off-topic here if viewed under the light of CA's strategy. However, it may be fully on-topic if viewed as an "ad...
Ed Gerck
egerck@...
Apr 10, 1998 9:34 pm
409
I have written a paper of potential interest to the SPKI/SDSI group, which is posted on my web site. See http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html ...
Ron Rivest
rivest@...
Apr 13, 1998 7:08 pm
410
This is probably not the right forum to ask, but could not find any other place to post the question: Does anyone know or can give pointers to info regarding...
Natarajan Sureshkumar
NatarajS@...
Apr 13, 1998 8:18 pm
411
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