Re: Is PGP broken?

[Peter Gutmann]

"Enzo Michelangeli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>Apart from standards issues, one thing I'd like to see added to popular S/MIME
>agents is a mini-CA to issue self-signed certificates. This would allow people
>to use S/MIME as they use PGP (who relies on the WoT anyway?), breaking the
>dependency from hierarchical CA's. Creating such an agent would be now a viable
>OpenSource project, without any need for expensive toolkit licenses.

I have an RFC draft for this which I wrote a while back but it was rejected by
the PKIX WG chair(s) ("I am concerned that we not turn PKIX into PGP with ASN.1
syntax"), and I haven't had the motivation to publish it as an independent
draft - would anyone even notice?.

Peter.