[Cryptography] World's oldest security RFC published

Jerry Leichter leichter at lrw.com
Wed Sep 23 16:42:15 EDT 2020


> 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

In 2000, they spelled "Enrollment" correctly.

In 2020, the *actual RFC* spells "Enrollment" incorrectly.

Sigh.
                                                        -- Jerry



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