On 01 Jul 2005 12:17:14 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you sure OCSP didn't come out of the IETF as an effort to 'standardize' the VeriSign / Microsoft certificate status service that was launched as an extension to ActiveX?
"Vivek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Would'nt a time of expiry be more relevant (to a client) as part of
> the ocsp response (just wondering if there was a reason that this
> was already considered and rejected?)
OCSP sort of came on the scene in the mid-90s after I was pointing out
that suggestions regarding converting the payment card network to
"modern" PKI was actually a technology regression of 20 or more years.
Are you sure OCSP didn't come out of the IETF as an effort to 'standardize' the VeriSign / Microsoft certificate status service that was launched as an extension to ActiveX?
