1995-10-03 - Re: Certificate proposal & X509 clarifications

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
To: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-10-03 03:09:41 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 20:09:41 PDT

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 20:09:41 PDT
To: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Certificate proposal & X509 clarifications
Message-ID: <9510030308.AA10671@sulphur.osf.org>
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>  Therefore, you
>have to get someone owning an OBJID tree branch to define meanings for you
>- -- and you have to publish some worldwide book of mappings, etc.

While I am no big fan of OID's (and I really dislike ASN.1 -- and nobody
ever explained to my why the ISO RPC standard doesn't use it), if
anybody really needs an ISO OID tree, I will probably be willing to
tear off a piece of OSF's:
	1.3.22
	{ iso(1) identified-org(3) osf(22) }





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