<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>On Aug 18, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Daniel Roesler <<a href="mailto:diafygi@gmail.com">diafygi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">We could have an implementation ready within a year.<br></blockquote><br>No offense, but how long do you think it will be before<br>Oracle/IBM/<insert-enterprise-tech-company-here> adopts your standard?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>None taken, it's a good question, and the answer is that Oracle/IBM/etc are almost completely irrelevant to adoption.</div><div><br></div><div>These companies play little to no role in TLS.</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm all for PKI alternatives, but your solution is easily a decade away from replacing X.509.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>If that it is true it is not due to Oracle/IBM et. al.<div><div><br></div><div>It is actually both scary and convenient that the internet is mostly a monoculture when it comes to security protocols.</div><div><br></div><div>The people who matter are:</div><div><br></div><div>- A very small number of developers.</div><div>- Sysadmins who run websites. The effort they need to make might be roughly equivalent to moving from HTTP to HTTPS.</div><div><br></div><div>And that's about it.</div><div><br></div><div>If it takes a decade, it will be due to lack of effort, lack of interest, etc. If you are serious about wanting a solution, then please help in any way you can to speed things up! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Greg Slepak</div><div><div>
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