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Re: A user's perspective of PEM

1994-01-21 09:34:00
Bob,

(I know that there have been some follow-ups to this, but I'm just
going to quickly state here what's up at my end.)

Since I don't have PEM up and running on my PC, I can't
parse your issuer certificate chain to see who issued your
certificate, and who your PCA is, but I would be curious to
know.

I'm currently registered via TIS/PEM as my PCA.  I've been a beta
tester of TIS/PEM for quite some time, and when I moved here to DISA
from CERT (Carnegie Mellon), I kept my TIS/PEM work going.  When there
is a .gov/.mil PCA someday, I'll re-register under that.  Also, I
registered a CA for the Directorate that I am in in our Center (the
Center for Information Systems Security, within DISA, the Defense
Information Systems Agency).

My CA is registered as:
    Country Name              : US
    Organization Name         : Defense Information Systems Agency
    Organizational Unit Name  : Center for Information Systems Security
    Organizational Unit Name  : Countermeasures

My own certificate is subordinate to that, and is:
    Country Name              : US
    Organization Name         : Defense Information Systems Agency
    Organizational Unit Name  : Center for Information Systems Security
    Organizational Unit Name  : Countermeasures
    Organizational Unit Name  : Operations
    Common Name               : Kenneth R. van Wyk

Each member of my division (Operations) gets a PEM certificate like
mine, so that any of us can send out ASSIST Bulletins that are signed
by PEM.

Hope that clarifies any confusion - if indeed there is still confusion
over this.

Regards,

Ken van Wyk

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