Hi Martin,

Hopefully this response makes it through the AT&T filters and /dev/net/null. :
(   

Thanks for the links - I had found the first one in my web searches but not the 
second.  I noticed Booz-Allen seems to have done a lot of beltway consulting in 
this area.  I am scared; that's a lot of work!  pros: you get SNMP and PKI and 
surely some other items with it,  cons: ASN.1 and X509 represent...well a lot 
more work than I have weekends.  If code doesn't appear from a local diety, I 
will proceed to hack TSTTCPW, which is the DSAPublicKeyInfo encoding {id-dsa-
with-sha1 SEQUENCE<q, p, g, y>} or so, and not the full X509Certificate.  If 
only I knew what those bits were..

I completely agree that this would be a _very_ useful open-source project.  Any 
chance of Cincom donating your work in X509 and ASN.1?   We could put it in the 
Goodies category of SqueakMap!  ;-)

regards,
robert

> You should be able to find all the necessary information in
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3279.txt and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt. 
> Beware that this is quite a bit of work though. You'll
> also need some ASN.1/DER parsing capabilities as well.
> 
> BTW, this is an essential piece for almost any kind of security solution 
> involving PKI in widespread use today, even SSL won't fly
> without it. It would make an extremely worthy open-source project IMO.
> 
> Martin Kobetic, Cincom Smalltalk Development, http://www.cincom.com/smalltalk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Withers" <rwithers12 at attbi.com>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:42 PM
> Subject: [Q] x.509 encoding of a dsa public key
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any code or a specification for this encoding?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> robert
> 
>