[Cryptography] World's oldest security RFC published

[Alex Alten]

Hello Peter,

It's great that a crypto standard like this is keeping up the pace with other crypto standards like TLS.  ; -)

BTW, is there a reference implementation for it on github?

- Alex

On Sep 14, 2020, 10:54 AM, at 10:54 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>In January 2000, a group of Cisco folks published an RFC draft:
>
>  SCEP: The Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
>  January 2000
>
>In September 2020, more than twenty years later:
>
>  A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>
>  RFC 8894
>
>  Title: Simple Certificate Enrolment Protocol
>  Date: September 2020
>
>Just to put this into perspective, at that time running it on a
>state-of-the-
>art PC would have involved a 450MHz Pentium III with 128MB RAM running
>Windows
>NT communicating via a dialup modem, or possibly early ADSL at 512kbps
>or so.
>Today, even the minimal embedded devices and cellphones that are
>provisioned
>with SCEP have many times that capacity.
>
>Peter.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>The cryptography mailing list
>cryptography at metzdowd.com
>https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/attachments/20200914/0f28507c/attachment.htm>