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Re: [Anima] creating iDevID certs with openssl

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 28 August 2017 17:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] creating iDevID certs with openssl
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Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net> wrote:
    >> 2) TLS ServerCertificate.
    >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246#section-7.4.2 Note: PKCS #7
    >> [PKCS7] is not used as the format for the certificate vector because
    >> PKCS #6 [PKCS6] extended certificates are not used.  Also, PKCS #7
    >> defines a SET rather than a SEQUENCE, making the task of parsing the
    >> list more difficult.

    > I don't understand how this relates to PKCS#6.  True about the SET, but
    > this is minor relative to the tradeoffs.  Can you say some more about
    > this?

I was simply quoting rfc5246.

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