A year or so ago (before I moved from Australia to the UK), I asked this
list what was the status of international opportunities to participate
in PEM. I got some cautiously optimistic replies without anyone actually
having any way round the export restrictions. I'd now like to ask the
question again, to see if there has been any progress in the mean time.
So, will it be possible for sites in the UK and/or Australia to participate
in PEM pilots?
Will it be possible for the public domain MH-PEM version to be exorted to
these and other European countries?
If not, would it be possible to export this version in "bare-bones" form,
as kerberos was initially (ie without the encryption algorithms but with the
hooks for them)?
Is anyone doing any work on international cross-certification?
Is anyone doing any work on gateways between PEM and secure X.400/X.500
mail?
Thanks for any help you can give in answering these questions.
Chris Rusbridge
Director of Information Services
University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
Internet: C(_dot_)A(_dot_)Rusbridge(_at_)dundee(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
Telephone: +44 382 307444 Fax: +44 382 23117