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Re: one possible motivation for X.509 -Reply -Reply
At 11:53 AM 7/19/96 -0600, Bob Jueneman wrote:
>Time will tell, but I think that the fact that we were able to write up a
complete definition
>for the certificate is a very short time, including the non-identity based
features, would
>indicate that X.509 and ASN.1 really ain't all that bad.
I know this is inviting disaster :) but that very feature of ASN.1 is one I
acknowledge and at the same time blame for ASN.1 disasters. Maybe we need a
newsgroup for ASN.1 wars. Let's not do it here.
http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/P1363/asn1.html
- Carl
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