Re: S/MIME publishing mailing list

>> 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.

We need to make it easier to get certificates, and then we need to make it easier for others to find those certificates.  I'm willing to work on both of these.

Russ

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