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Re: [Cryptography] RSA recommends against use of its own products.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Sep 30 00:11:15 2013

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> writes:

>Quite, who on earth thought DER encoding was necessary or anything other than
>incredible stupidity?

At least some X.500/LDAP folks thought they could do it.  Mind you, we're
talking about people who believe in X.500/LDAP here...

Peter.

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