Management of signature keys for government

Paul Leyland pleyland at microsoft.com
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:53:40 -0800


I hope Paul forgives me for reposting personal email, but the question is
innocuous and the answer probably of general interest.

A good starting point is http://ftp.clark.net/pub/cme/html/spki.html which
is Carl Ellison's page on SPKI.  Carl is one of the leading lights in the
SPKI enterprise.


Paul

> ----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Crowley [SMTP:paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 04, 1998 2:05 PM
> To:	Paul Leyland
> Subject:	Re: Management of signature keys for government
> 
> Paul Leyland <pleyland@microsoft.com> writes:
> > It is for reasons such as these that SPKI certificates have explicit
> > expiry dates, use only local names, and so on.  The full story is
> > far too long for me to go into here.
> 
> Where can the full story be found?
> 
> tia,
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