SPKI Certs Usage

[Jay Listo]

Thank you for such a frank response, Peter...I read someone's archived 
post that you should be  a "protected world resource" (?).  I realise I 
could have emailed you directly about this a while back, but I really 
wanted to get the opinion of other people unrelated to SPKI 
development/advocacy.

It took me a few months to find out how to get on this list (a bit of a 
convoluted process for me to finally figure out), since I thought this 
would be the best forum of informed people to get a valid response.

Seems like yours would be the definitive response...but I am kind of 
hoping for others' opinions as well.

It's a pity if SPKI is not used just because it's not X.509.


Peter Gutmann wrote:

>Jay Listo <jay.listo at gmail.com> writes:
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>>I am also not aware of any products or PKIs that use SPKI certs.  I would
>>really appreciate if someone could refer me to instances of actual usage of
>>SPKI certs.
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>They were never really used.  The great feature of SPKI is that it's not X.509
>(so it's a design fit for a purpose rather than being digital ancestor-
>worship of failed OSI standards from the 1980s).  The great failing of SPKI is
>that it's not X.509 (it's impossible to get any cert mechanism accepted unless
>it's called X.509).
>
>Peter.