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Re: Possible SPKI simplifications
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At 03:00 PM 8/18/97 +0100, Peter Williams wrote:
>Apart from changing ASN.1 to SPKI abstract syntax (a minimal
>change not worth the bother as both are recursive list designs
>and take ~ the same amount of code to parse), this is pure X.509!
The difference in code between ASN.1 and canonical S-expressions is
significant. Let's have a bake-off between the two sometime -- but not here
and now. :)
>Surely SPKI needs to be able to convey the policy semantics
>(not only inputs) in the auth field so that any party can define the policy
>rule to be remotely enforced; I thought that was the whole claim to
>distinguished fame of the SPKI model?
I agree. Thanks for stating this so clearly.
- Carl
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