Re: SSL sans RSA

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:47:43 +0000

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William H. Geiger III wrote:
> >> Except for
> >> SNMP v1, I don't think any other protocol using ASN.1 has been successful,
> >> especially security ones. For example look at Kerberos v5 or SET or the
> >> first couple of secure SNMP attempts.
>
> >Well, S/MIME.
>
> Like he said ....

In what sense is S/MIME successful? Compared to its competitor(s), that
is?

Cheers,

Ben.

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