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Re: Wes Hardaker: opportunistic encryption deployment problems
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Bill Manning wrote:
> One point. Instead of TXT records for stuffing bits into, there is
> the CERT record which was designed for just such stuff.
Well, for small values of "designed". :-) CERT itself is fine; the problem
is that the stuff inside it is X.509, which we have been resisting getting
involved with.
We chose TXT because we simply wanted to convey a gateway address and a
key, and we wanted to parse it with 10 lines of code, not 10,000.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net
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