Educated Guesswork: Peter Gutmann on X.509

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June 4, 2005

Peter Gutmann on X.509

Peter Gutmann is not a big fan of X.509 [*]:

Denis Pinkas  writes:

>The Directory (i.e. X.500) failed, but the good part of it, i.e. X.509,
>remains.

"good"?  Hmm [flips through dictionary]... oh I see, you're using "good" here
to mean "ample, substantial", as in "The PKIX profile of X.509 covers a _good_
part of 2,000 pages of text".  Well, there can be no doubt that X.509 has
become gooder than X.500 ever was, and is only going to become gooder in the
future.

Peter.