307 digit number factored

[Florian Weimer]

* Victor Duchovni:

>> That's good of you not to expect it, given that zero of the major CAs 
>> seem to support ECC certs today, and even if they did, those certs 
>> would not work in IE on XP.
>
> We are not talking about this year or next of course. My estimate is
> that Postfix releases designed this year, ship next year, are picked up
> by some O/S vendors the year after and shipped perhaps a year after that,
> then customers take a few years to upgrade, ... So for some users Postfix
> 2.5 will be their MTA upgrade in 2011 or later. So we need to anticipate
> future demand by a few years to be current at the time that users begin
> to use the software.

But no one is issuing certificates which are suitable for use with
SMTP (in the sense that the CA provides a security benefit).  As far
as I know, there isn't even a way to store mail routing information in
X.509 certificates.

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