1995-07-21 - Re: Netscape the Big Win
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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-07-21 14:13:46 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 07:13:46 PDT
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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 07:13:46 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Netscape the Big Win
Message-ID: <9507211413.AA25887@sulphur.osf.org>
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> Well, X.509 for now. The Eastlake-Kaufman DNS Security work
> (draft-ietf-dnssec-secext-04.txt) plus MOSS (draft-ietf-pem-mime-08.txt
> --now proposed standard, awaiting an RFC number) promise to give us
> a non-X.509 certification structure for the Internet.
I have serious concerns about whether the DNS stuff will really scale.
It's gonna blow out DNS server memory use, and the bigger packets means
a *lot* more TCP (vs UDP) activity.
/r$
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