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Re: [jose] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-31

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Fri, 26 September 2014 15:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [jose] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-31
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Mike,
>
> OK -- these are taken care of now.  I posted the rfcdiff links in the 
> announcement to make it easy for people to see what changed.
>
> The one comment I didn't address was about the RFC 1421 reference.  I 
> haven't yet found the best reference for the document that defines the 
> PEM certificate format (which contain the strings "-----BEGIN 
> CERTIFICATE-----" and "-----END CERTIFICATE-----").  It turns out that 
> 1421 doesn't do it.  Do any of you know the right reference for this?
>
You're right, this convention for files containing certs is not an IETF 
standard, AFAIK.
It is a convention developed by folks writing code for OpenSSL.

Steve

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