Perry E. Metzger wrote:
SKMS is vaporware that leaves all the hard parts of the specification out.
An open-source implementation has been available for 2 years. A new version will be available next year that will implement the current OASIS draft and whatever useful comments the Public Review of the specification brings.
I think that comparing the advance SQL made with SKMS seems a bit unreasonable.
I was comparing the concept of data-management to key-management, which is a more appropriate analogy; there is no end-user language within an SKMS. WRT comparing SKMS to Kerberos, for 20+ years I've always seen Kerberos as a network-authentication protocol and perhaps it is my failing that I couldn't see the possibility of using a flat-head screwdriver in a Philips-head screw. Arshad Noor StrongAuth, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
