On 2013-10-10 01:36, Nathan Kinder wrote:
> On 09/28/2013 12:17 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Sean Leonard <dev+mozi...@seantek.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 9/27/2013 5:51 PM, Robert Relyea wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't have a problem with going for an industry standard way of doing
>>>> all of these things, but it's certainly pretty presumptuous to remove these
>>>> features without supplying the industry standard replacements and time for
>>>> them to filter through the internet. bob
>>
>> Why isn't <keygen> good enough?
> 
> 
> There is no support for key archival with <keygen>, which is supported 
> by generateCRMFRequest.  We heavily rely on generateCRMFRequest in 
> Dogtag Certificate System (and Red Hat Certificate System), and key 
> archival is one of the features that we use.
> 
> I'm all for a standardized replacement, but it seems wrong to rip out 
> something that has been a nice functional feature that people have come 
> to rely on for many years before a replacement is available.

Since keygen and generateCRMFRequest are 18 respective 12
years old this seems to be a rather reasonable request.

I.e. we can not expect a suitable replacement until 2020 or so.

Anders

> 
> Thanks,
> -NGK
> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
>>
> 

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