Re: [certid] Comments on draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check-04

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Fri, 11 June 2010 20:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [certid] Comments on draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check-04
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On 6/9/10 11:52 PM, Kaspar Brand wrote:
> On 10.06.2010 04:18, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> The definition of "CN-ID" in section 1.3 should probably also be adapted
>>> (i.e., it should explicitly forbid multi-CN RDNs).
>>
>> Is this a more accurate definition?
>>
>>       *  CN-ID = a subject Distinguished Name (DN) whose constituent
>>          sequence of Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs) contains one
>>          and only one attribute value assertion (AVA) whose attribute
>>          type is Common Name (CN)
> 
> I think it's better to refer to it at the RDN level (as is the case for
> -05):
> 
>       *  CN-ID = a Relative Distinguished Name (RDN) in the certificate
>          subject which contains one and only one attribute value
>          assertion (AVA) whose attribute type is Common Name (CN)

I think that's better, thanks.

Peter

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