To:
lafur Guðmundsson <ogud@ogud.com>
Cc:
Simon Josefsson <simon+dnssec@josefsson.org>, Jakob Schlyter <jakob@crt.se>, <dnssec@cafax.se>
From:
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date:
07 Sep 2001 17:13:17 -0400
In-Reply-To:
Ólafur Guðmundsson's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:03:32 -0400"
Sender:
owner-dnssec@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Certificates and public keys
=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3lafur?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Gu=F0mundsson?= <ogud@ogud.com> writes:
> Back to the question that I wanted to ask in previous message,
> Do applications want a PARTICULAR algorithm or ANY algorithm allowed
> by protocol ?
I think this generally depends on the application. In some cases the
application will want all the keys so it can choose one (or perhaps
use ALL of them). In other cases the application may know ahead of
time which particular type of key it wants. I don't think you can
necessarily make the generalization.
> Olafur
-derek
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