To:
Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>, keydist@cafax.se
From:
Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
Date:
Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:20:33 -0800
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<200201071441.g07Ef4F00643@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: From whence we came...
At 9:41 AM -0500 1/7/02, Michael Richardson wrote: > You define your opaque blob and I'll define mine. We'll document our uses >in an RFC. > End of discussion. It appears that this discussion has more-than-tangentially been about passing around those blobs in the DNS protocol. A bare public key can be probably fit in the 512-octet limit that most people put on DNS under UDP; a typical PKIX certificate probably cannot. So the choice of the blob is in fact important for this discussion. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium