Tim Churches wrote: > Syan Tan spent a single-handed weekend about a year or so ago ripping > out the HeSA PKI libraries from the open source version of ArgusConnect > and replacing them with BouncyCastle, which is a set of excellent, > mature, free and open source X.509 PKI libraries 9see > http://www.bouncycastle.org/ ). The result was a version of ArgusConnect > which would work with any X.509 compliant PKI provider (including ones > set up with free tools like OpenCA - see > http://www.openca.org/projects/openca/ ). > > Andrew Shrosbree was, as I recall, rather snooty about Syan's work, > arguing that it must be a horribly quick hack. That may or may not be > the case, but either way, if Syan can do it in a weekend then surely a > couple of the ArgusConnect software engineers can do the same, to > Andrew's exacting standards, in a few weeks? > > At this stage, I would opine that the medium-to-long-term future of > ArgusConnect depends on such a conversion to allow the use of generic > X.509 PKIs rather than the flawed-from-the-outset and now doomed HeSA PKI.
I am told that a forthcoming announcement by Ross Davey will reveal the above to be somewhat of an inadvertant Dorothy Dixer. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
