<publickey>

Given the goals of MIME/PEM, do we need to BER encode the <publickey>?


(The object subjectPublicKeyInfo is imported from the X.500 Directory
from the certificate object.  It is currently the best choice for a
general purpose public key encoding.)

    <publickey>     ::= <encbin>
                        ; a printably encoded, ASN.1 encoded public key (as
                        ; defined by the 'SubjectPublicKeyInfo' production
                        ; specified in X.509)

Alternatively, might we not mandate a simpler set of encoding rules.

How about PGP's highly successful and usable definition, instead?