Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2

[Karel Gardas]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Tom Lord wrote:

>     > In fact I do not care about x509 support a lot now, I just think that it
>     > would be sad to design tla support for crypto signatures non-extensible
>     > and for better testing extensibility, it's great to use two different
>     > technologies :-)
>
> I agree in principle but sometimes trying to form the generalizations
> up front is more trouble than it's worth.  The general approach that
> we're talking about doesn't preclude future extension/generalization.

OK.

> [*] It's funny, from my perspective, when people talk about using
>     q-agent in order to keep the "TCB" small.   Geeze, I only had to
>     install about 10MB of new source (including an out of date version
>     of one package) just to get it to compile.

:-) What about to give a try to gpg-1.9? It should already contain agent
functionality... and also it should support x509/smime.

Cheers,

Karel
--
Karel Gardas                  address@hidden
ObjectSecurity Ltd.           http://www.objectsecurity.com