Re: S/MIME publishing mailing list

Russ Housley wrote:
> The IETF Enroll WG was chartered to solve this problem, but it folded before doing so.
> 
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/enroll/charter/
> 
> We could get the ietf-enroll mail list reactivated if there is interest.

I think I have to clarify:

My suggestion was not about cert enrollment. I also don't want to invent a new
mechanism. I just thought of a very *simple* S/MIME cert publication tool in
form of a mass subscriber mailing list. *Existing* standard MUAs could
immediately leverage importing S/MIME certs from signed messages sent to the list.

Even though the ietf-enroll charter sounds interesting it does not seem
appropriate to reactivate the mailing list for the purpose I described.

But maybe reviving ietf-enroll WG would be interesting.


> On Jan 23, 2015, at 4:59 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
> 
>> HI!
>>
>> Still getting S/MIME certs of other mail users is a unsolved problem.
>>
>> Would it make sense if the IETF would simply host a non-WG mailing list for
>> simply publishing S/MIME certs via e-mail?
>>
>> So if mailing list members get a new S/MIME cert they send a signed e-mail
>> with almost empty content to the mailing list and all subscribers get the
>> certs and S/MIME capabilities.
>>
>> Ciao, Michael.

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