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Re: X.509, S/MIME, and evolution of PGP
At 3:22 PM 9/27/95, Bill Stewart wrote:
>2) RSA patent - can this be built with RSAREF? Or RSAREF with permission
>for a couple extra activities? Or built out of RIPEM or RIPEM-SIG?
>The latter has the benefit of already being exportable.
It certainly can be built from RSAREF, as I use my Apple DigiSign X.509 key
(ultimately created with TIPEM in the Mac system software) with RIPEM/Mac
(which uses RSAREF.)
Some additional info: my company, Consensus Development, has commercial
rights to license developers RSAREF also has a good relationship with
VeriSign. We helping them writea variety of tools to make issuing X.509
certs easier.
>5) S/MIME - real S/MIME compliance requires support for RC2 as well as
>publicly available algorithms, though this is really just an X.509 handler.
I've been working on getting RC2/RC4 in object-only exportable size key
form from RSA for RSAREF customers, and Jim Bidzos has agreed in principle.
We have to work out details, however.
>6) It's a lot of work - well, yeah, it is. And I'm lazy. Is there enough
>related code in SSLeay to steal to help implement it?
I spoke with Eric yesterday and I think he was working on some ASN.1
related classes for a future version of SSLeay.
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