I didn't state my question clearly. I MEANT to ask if the PEM-MIME security
services used outside MIME access the same data base.
I would hope that implementation will allow this, and it is something I would
certainly like to support in my own implementation, but there is certainly
nothing in the specification to require them to do so. Indeed, such a
requirement would be entirely inappropriate for a protocol specification, in my
view. This is the stuff of which security APIs are made, and thus far I don't
know of any defined APIs for PEM.
Ned