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From: Eric Grosse <ehg@lucent.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] x509(8)
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:21:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6582b842e58e8aa67fc665b6d0162e7@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ADDxi-000F7w-03@t40.swtch.com>

> x509(8) is dead.  The man page index is out-of-date.
> See rsa(8) and pem(8).

See also rsa(2) and /sys/src/libsec/port/x509.c.  We use X.509
certificates because the rest of the world does, and so this is
a feasible way to ship public keys around, whether or not you
buy into the whole PKI hierarchy.


      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-25 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-25  2:03 mirtchov
2003-10-25  2:15 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-25 13:21   ` Eric Grosse [this message]

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