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Re: [COSE] "CBOR Certificates"

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 12 February 2021 08:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [COSE] "CBOR Certificates"
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On 12. Feb 2021, at 08:36, Göran Selander <goran.selander=40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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>  "CBOR certificate"  (shorthand for "CBOR encoded X.509 certificate”)

I’m still hoping that we will, at some point, have “CBOR encoded modern certificates” as well, so I’m not sure I like this shorthand.
We will have a hard time controlling what people will call these things, so being upfront about the naming will be really useful.

Grüße, Carsten

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