Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: janm@dramba.neis.oz.au (Jan Mikkelsen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: X.509 use in industry Message-ID: <1991Apr12.051646.15397@dramba.neis.oz> Date: 12 Apr 91 03:35:49 GMT References: <27720001@otter.hpl.hp.com> Organization: Dramba Holdings, Lindfield, Australia Lines: 19 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU Posted-Date: 12 Apr 91 05:16:46 GMT x-attn: jns X-Previously-To: comp-protocols-iso-x400@munnari.oz.au ReSent-From: Jerry Sweet ReSent-To: mhsnews@ICS.UCI.EDU I know of no bank or firm providing certification authority services using X.509. If there are, I too, would be very interested to hear about it. I don't think there is even enough stable software out there to provide the service. There are companies which intend to provide such a service, the one for which I work is one of them. In the EDI world, there is work being done on security, the MD4 Edifact banking security working party, and the Tedis programme. While both make mention of X.509 they are basically emerging standards for using X.509 in an Edifact EDI message. These standards are not yet stable. What is the application you have in mind for X.509? -- Jan Mikkelsen janm@dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz@metro.ucc.su.oz.au "She really is."