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To: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>, Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>, <dnssec@cafax.se>
From: Jakob Schlyter <jakob@crt.se>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:36:10 +0200 (MEST)
Delivery-Date: Fri Aug 31 20:35:36 2001
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108311721450.30765-100000@lie.extundo.com>
Sender: owner-dnssec@cafax.se
Subject: Re: CERTificates and public keys

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> > correct, but cert implies that it contains a public key and a signature.
>
> Well, the CERT RR already discuss CRLs which isn't a signed public key.
>
> It seems to me that the CERT RR is a everything-applications-might-want-
> that-is-PKI-related RR.

everything stored in a CERT RR has its own signature and this difference
is very important to consider.

	jakob


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