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Re: PKCS#11 URI slot attributes & last call

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 30 December 2014 19:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: PKCS#11 URI slot attributes & last call
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com>
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Nico Williams wrote:
>>Better not even think about saying anything about normalization,
>>right?  PKCS#11 nowadays supports UTF-8 for the strings we care about,
>>but says nothing about normalization.  I suppose you could say that
>>matching should be (lowercase) normalization-insensitive.  In practice
>>it will never matter (which is why the lowercase).
>
>         hi Nico, I assume you talk about case normalization now.  I
> also agree we need not to say anything about it - and we don't aside
> from "case normalization" as defined in 6.2.2.1 of RFC 3986 where only
> the following sections are relevant to us:

No, I meant Unicode normalization.  It's a messy business.  Better say
nothing, because I think the thing to do is obvious enough, but if we
must say anything, it's that the various strings (e.g., token manuf)
are to be compared normalization-insensitively.

Nico
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