On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Peter Williams wrote:
...
(c) The VISA/Microsoft concept of an STT credential, versus a certificat
(even though
a credential is what we are all familar with technically as a cert) is
very
specific semantic shift designed for a closed-purpose, payment-specific,
key management framework in which the handling of liability is quit
different
to the philosophy which you have espoused for open systems for years,
and seems (by your own words) to behind the Mastercard/GTE/... SEPP work.
Thankyou for spending the time to write the SEPP response yesterday. I, for
one,
learned from you alot both about SEPP, and commercial security design
processes.
I hope its correct to use pem-dev for this topic, rather than the focussed
agenda
ietf-pkix list.
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