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

"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> Thu, 10 June 2010 17:23 UTC

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My NASA PIV card has one.  The ambiguity of ordering in the string representation does in fact cause problems.

On Jun 4, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:

>> You can have two AVAs of the same type in the on RDN, i.e.
>> two common names in the same RDN. There the interpretation
>> of most-significant is not clear.
> 
> Agreed, in principle.  In practice, I've never seen a certificate produced
> by a real CA with multiple AVAs in a single RDN.  I've seen them in certs
> produced by test scripts, and by people playing with OpenSSL.  :)

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