Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>>      As others have pointed out, the DNS already has the capability
>>      to store certs.  So you could use the DNS as a publication 
>>      method.  But is this the only thing a PKI needs?  How would
>>      one revolke a cert that was in the DNS?  How can you update
>>      -every- cached copy of the cert in question? 
> 
> 
> you don't need to.  there are in general two options for this sort of
> thing:
> 
>   1) short lived certs
>   2) CRL's published at regular intervals.
> 
> both involve a regularly-signed short-lived objects.

Errr - OCSP?

Cheers,

Ben.

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