SPKI (WAS Re: Field slide attacks and how to avoid them.)

[Carl Ellison]

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At 10:19 PM 9/20/2001 +0100, Paul Crowley wrote:
>Rich Salz <rsalz at zolera.com> writes:
>
>> > Or also [XPKI certs as XML] their XML equivalents:
>> > 
>> > http://xml.coverpages.org/xml-spki.html
>> 
>> The referenced I-D seems to have expired and not been replaced by
>> anything I can find.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a "spki certs in xml syntax" doc?
>
>The "cache" link on that page carries it:
>
>http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-paajarvi-xml-spki-cert-00.txt
>
>I confess I love SPKI, and I would love to know why we're not in a
>sitation where it's in widespread use today.

We're getting there -- slowly.  Why not faster?  My theory is that
it's a lack of marketing money.  No one makes money off SPKI, so no
one spends money to push it.

BTW, I have a program (which I will post when I get my act together)
showing a mapping from canonical S-expressions to XML (with the
reverse mapping obvious), and that defines another XML syntax for
SPKI certificates.  Paajarvi didn't use it because it requires a
schema (not DTD) to describe the resulting XML (because some element
names are used differently in different contexts).

 - Carl

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