In another forum, at 10:37 2/25/96, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

Subject: Re: encodings: do we need binary at all?

I think the whole discussion of encoding is premature at this stage; let's decide on *what* we want to encode, and only *then* decide *how* to encode it.

To that end, I've written up in detail the kind of certificate content I would like us to consider. It is represented as ASCII encoding [tag: value], but that is just for convenience in this discussion. The detail description is in http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/html/cert.html and I can e-mail it to anyone without web access. Specifically, I believe there are shortcomings in X.509 and even worse ones in PGP signed keys and I'm proposing a certificate structure to overcome those shortcomings. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@cybercash.com http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |CyberCash, Inc., Suite 430 http://www.cybercash.com/ | |2100 Reston Parkway PGP 2.6.2: 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | |Reston, VA 22091 Tel: (703) 620-4200 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+