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From: Eric Grosse <ehg@lucent.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] x509(8)
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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:21:09 -0400
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> 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  The man page index is out-of-date.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.