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Re: rules for SPKI <auth> field comparisons

To: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Subject: Re: rules for SPKI <auth> field comparisons
From: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:11:38 +0000
Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>, spki@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Mar 1997 15:00:03 EST." <3.0.1.32.19970314150003.00a6d578@cybercash.com>
Sender: owner-spki@c2.net

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In message <3.0.1.32.19970314150003.00a6d578@cybercash.com>, Carl Ellison write
s:
>
>Not that I want to discourage volunteers, but the ASCII format you sent out 
>before struck me as hard enough to read (for lack of spaces) that I'd 
>imagine writing a custom editor to manipulate it - in which case it might as 
>well be binary.  I'd like to hear from others on this.
>

I've seen enough in the last few months to decide to support a binary
format for certificates; each field being prepended by its size (so no
skimming the cert necessary), and maybe have the total size of the
message prepended as well, as a probable optimization.
- -Angelos

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Re: rules for SPKI <auth> field comparisons

From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>

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