Re: Certificates turn 30, X.509 turns 20, no-one notices

2008-11-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
On 11/27/08 05:13, Nicholas Bohm wrote: I've never been quite sure whether "Public" qualifies "Key" or "Infrastructure" - this may make a difference to what you count as a PKI. SWIFT (interbank messaging), BOLERO (bills of lading) and CREST (dealing in dematerialised stocks and shares) all use p

Re: Certificates turn 30, X.509 turns 20, no-one notices

2008-11-27 Thread Nicholas Bohm
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-