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To: Jakob Schlyter <jakob@crt.se>
Cc: Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>, <dnssec@cafax.se>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Aug 2001 11:41:21 -0400
Delivery-Date: Fri Aug 31 20:35:38 2001
In-Reply-To: Jakob Schlyter's message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:38:03 +0200 (MEST)"
Sender: owner-dnssec@cafax.se
Subject: Re: CERTificates and public keys

Jakob Schlyter <jakob@crt.se> writes:

> On 31 Aug 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > Then how is an application supposed to know whether to use APKEY or
> > CERT records to look up an application key?
> 
> that would be application dependant. e.g. ssh would look for KEY or
> APPKEY, TLS applications would look for CERT, PGP for CERT, ...

Boy is _THIS_ confusing.  Standards are great, huh?  EVERYONE
should have one! :)

> 	jakob

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available

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