There's a NWI proposal under ballot in the ISO TC68/SC2 security group that if approved will define an all XML markup certificate based on the schema defined in ANSI X9.68. Phil Joseph Reagle wrote: >On Friday 17 January 2003 16:56, Joseph Swaminathan wrote: > > >>certificate which is in binary format. So for a box >>to support XMLDSIG, it needs to have both XML parser >>as well as ASN.1 parser isnt' it. >> >> > >Yes, I've been calling this the "Frankenstein Complex" for a little over a >year now I think. > > > >> I understand using XKMS this validation can be >>ofloaded to a key management system. But if a box >>has to do all the validation itself, then does it >>require both XML & ASN.1 parser to validate >>certificates isnt it. >> >> > >Generally yes -- unless they use XKMS, or use a native XKMS cert format. > > > >Received on Friday, 17 January 2003 18:51:17 GMT
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