Re: [certid] chapter 4.4.5 ...
Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Fri, 09 July 2010 19:21 UTC
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On 7/6/10 11:33 AM, Peter Sylvester wrote: > says > > the client MAY as a fallback > check for a fully-qualified DNS domain name in the last Common Name > RDN in the sequence of RDNs making up the Distinguished Name within > the certificate's subjectName (where the term "last" refers to the > DER order, which is often not the string order presented to a user; > the order that is applied here MUST be the DER order). > > > The text in parenthesis 'refers to the order of the ASN.1 sequence' > the last half sentence is superfluous. Agreed. I've deleted that text so that we discuss ordering issues only in the section about subject naming. > 'Common Name RDN' is not the correct term (as already explained > by many). Changed to CN-ID so that we reference the definition provided earlier in the document. > The text 'In existing certficates ..' stars with a defintion which > should rather belong to 2.2. A clear separation of 2.2 and 4.4 > should be done. Done. > There is also redundancy with 4.3 and 4.4.4 In one it is > a security note, the other is not. at least the same things are > said (at least) twice. That repetition was intentional. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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