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.
> 
> We need to make it easier to get certificates, and then we need to make it
> easier for others to find those certificates.

Yes. But it's not a hard requirement that we have to proceed in exactly this
order.

> I'm willing to work on both of these.

So there are already two of us. :-)

Ciao, Michael.

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