Richard Hartmann wrote: > On 13/09/2007, Rodney Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Why XMLRPC instead of any of the existing online enrollment protocols? > > Well, the main reason is that, like it or not, XMLRPC is developing into > a kind of lingua franca when it comes to interoperability. The easy > availablity of TLS for this path is an obvious plus.
I think that's a reasonable view. the "RPC" aspect of it is outrageously insecure but it's certainly all the rage. > > >> Not that I am trying to defend the existing online enrollment protocols, >> mind you... > > Well, if there is anything that works in a secure and reliable way, I am > all ears :) There's CMP which has only a few implementations (and none open source that I can find), and there's SCEP which has some commercial implementations (and no open source ones that I can find.) >> What CLIENT do you think would interoperate with such a CA, should it >> exist? > > A self-baked one. Fair enough. If there were something out there that one were trying to interoperate with that would of course be interesting. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
