To:
Ted.Hardie@nominum.com
Cc:
Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>, keydist@cafax.se
From:
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date:
09 Jan 2002 17:19:00 -0500
In-Reply-To:
Ted Hardie's message of "Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:35:30 -0800"
Sender:
owner-keydist@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: From whence we came...
Ted Hardie <Ted.Hardie@nominum.com> writes:
> I assume you mean "blobs" in the generic sense, and aren't referring
> to the blobs that Keith means in the RESCAP docs. With that
> assumption, I'd like to assert that we need at least enough in
> the keydist protocol to ask for a key of a specific type.
Yea, by "blob" I mean "arbitrary pile of bits" or in RFC-parlance,
an "arbitrary length-encoded octet-string". :)
-derek
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