Simple Public Key Infrastructure

Many Internet protocols and applications which use the Internet employ public key technology for security purposes and require a public key infrastructure to manage public keys.

• http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/spki-charter.html

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CapabilitiesAsKeysModel, PasswordCapabilityModel

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I'm not sure what this is. Judging by the web page, it appears:

• That in 1997, people met to talk about a PublicKeyInfrastructure
• They also used C2 mailing lists.
• They wanted an IETF sponsored PK certificate format, signature format. And they wanted a standard way to find keys.
• The result was to be called "SimplePublicKeyInfrastructure."
• They referenced RFC's 2692, 2693.

If such a thing exists, I've never seen it. At least not in Python, at any rate.

Anyone with any more information?

-- LionKimbro

Here is a link to page about SPKI: http://theworld.com/~cme/html/spki.html

The page is pretty good in my opinion.

-- Zarutian

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CategorySecurity