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Subject:    Re: Information on key handling with Microsoft products    [PKCS
From:       "Sergei O. Ivanov" <sergiva () NWLINK ! COM>
Date:       1998-01-29 18:28:42
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Stephen,

Did you implement the public key encryption mode? Honestly, I haven't seen
really complete implementation anywhere--I suspect difficulties with handling
all those incompatible key mgmt mechanisms make it pretty hard.

And, by the way, which version of the standard have you used? It went a long
way of evolution starting with Brian Beckman's original and then there were
probably four more drafts with RSA's changes.

The standard in its current state is fairly sophisticated and, as you know,
allows for a lot more things than certs and private keys. Typed secret bags
(SecretBag ASN.1 type), for example, could've been used to carry things
like your browser settings, email account configuration, etc. Not sure why
neither Netscape nor MS did not support this.

-Sergei

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr Stephen Henson <shenson@BIGFOOT.COM>
To: CryptoAPI@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM <CryptoAPI@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Information on key handling with Microsoft products


>Michael A. Brown wrote:
>>
>> Do you know where I can find a pkcs12 wrapping utility like the pkcs7 wrapping
>> utility that
>> Microsoft has (Cert2spc.exe).  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
>BEGIN SHAMELESS PLUG
>
>I have written a PKCS#12 patch for SSLeay. It is freely available.
>However you may have fun patching the source if you are doing this
>entirely under Windows/DOS.
>
>It works with both NS and MSIE implementations and it uses the strongest
>encryption both versions will import (3DES for private keys, RC2-40 for
>certificates).
>
>Both SSLeay and my patch are available from:
>
>ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL/
>
>END SHAMELESS PLUG
>
>Steve.
>
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