I've been trying to take a bit of load off of Dr. Henson, cuz he has other work to do. I can't contribute to him financially, unfortunately, but I do have what I think is a lot of knowledge on the topic, and am willing to help out as much as I can.
However, there are some questions that only he can answer. I'm adding to my own knowledgebase from his answers as we go along. On 2/22/06, Georg Lohrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > let me jump into your thread for a short remark. > > Kyle, thank you very much for your patience with such rookies like myself and > maybe Jeff. As you wrote: > > > The nomenclature of this stuff IS COMPLICATED. There is no way around > > that, because the ITU decided that they knew best, and the IETF has > > been trying to work with the ISO standards that the ITU > > recommendations became. Our hands are tied, here -- and I'm very, > > very sorry that it's difficult to write any kind of documentation that > > works. (I might try to write something to include into the "extra > > contributed docs" section, though.) > > Your recent post clarify or fills some gaps in my knowledge about this X.509 > stuff and handling such an environment. I have read lots of HOWTO's and > documentation and everytime have come to the point, there the doc is too old > inaccurate, wrong or even all of them. > So there are lots of white-spots and gaps belonging to this theme in my > knowledge. I'm not going to lie -- there's blank spots and gaps in MY knowledge of this stuff. (I've been trying to read all of the RFCs and documentation that I referenced, and good GOD is it a pain to understand. ITU specs are like reading Engrish stereo instructions. IETF specs are like reading "War and Peace".) > Especially your and Stephens help on last sunday (!) was invaluable. I > cannot give back help in this context, but be assured that there are other > themes I really know my stuff :-) And accomodation like yours is always a > good reason to do the same on my grounds. > > How about letting you last mailing-list entry as an entry-point for a > advanced beginners HOWTO? Only raw text, nothing else, no extra work. Because a scenario needs to be built-up, and I snipped the scenario out of my reply to Jeff. However, a wiki might be appropriate for such a thing... hmmm.... -Kyle H ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
