Re: Syslog-sign: Certificate chains?

Jon Callas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:27 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected] 
 > wrote:

>
> Most IETF protocols that send certificates around support sending
> certificate chains, too. Should syslog-sign support this, too?
> If not, why?

The model is for a more direct trust system where the certificate  
transfered is its own trust anchor. So if I am going to send you a log  
stream that I'll be signing with a certificate, I just send you the  
cert that I'm signing with. There's no need for a chain. Perhaps that  
cert descends from a formal CA and that may contain its own goodness,  
but it is not necessary.

	Jon


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