Re: [kmip-comment] KMIP vs EKMI

[Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren@telia.com>]

On 2012-01-19 14:32, Dean Macinskas wrote:
> Can someone provide some insight as to the differences between EKMI and KMIP,
> what their respective target application environments are and why one would
> choose one over the other?  They appear to use completely different communications
> protocols.  Are they seen as competing or complementary?
> Is there a document or FAQ that discusses this?

Dean, the scope of KMPI is greatly exaggerated.

In fact, KMIP doesn't even support end-to-end-secured enrollment
of the kind already available in for example:

   http://www.google.com/wallet

That doesn't mean that KMIP is bad; it just means that KMIP will
be limited to storage solutions.

-- Anders

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