Certificates turn 30, X.509 turns 20, no-one notices
This doesn't seem to have garnered much attention, but this year marks two milestones in PKI: Loren Kohnfelder's thesis was published 30 years ago, and X.509v1 was published 20 years ago. As a sign of PKI's successful penetration of the marketplace, the premier get- together for PKI folks, the IDtrust Symposium (formerly the PKI Workshop and now in its eighth year) authenticates participants with... username and password, for lack of a working PKI. (OK, it's a bit of a cheap shot and it's been done before, but I thought it was especially significant this year :-). Peter. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Certificates turn 30, X.509 turns 20, no-one notices
On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: This doesn't seem to have garnered much attention, but this year marks two milestones in PKI: Loren Kohnfelder's thesis was published 30 years ago, and X.509v1 was published 20 years ago. As a sign of PKI's successful penetration of the marketplace, the premier get- together for PKI folks, the IDtrust Symposium (formerly the PKI Workshop and now in its eighth year) authenticates participants with... username and password, for lack of a working PKI. (OK, it's a bit of a cheap shot and it's been done before, but I thought it was especially significant this year :-). Yeah, they should be using OpenID. :-) Jon - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
