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Re: I have a technical idea/change for the ECC draft

2008-04-15 00:21:29

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On Apr 14, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:

Jon Callas <jon(_at_)callas(_dot_)org> writes:

I have heard it said that there have been no DSA certificates  
created in the
real world, only ones needed for "interop" testing for the  
"mandatory"
algorithm.

There are DSA certs created for USG use but they're from a parallel  
universe
where X.509 PKI works just fine, people still send X.400 email, and  
everything
is predicated on the X.500 Directory, so I don't think it's a good
representative example :-).

Which is precisely my point. They are the mandatory-to-implement, but  
they exist with Bizarro Superman.

        Jon


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