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Re: [kitten] Is id-pkinit-san misnamed? Can it be reused by kca?

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> Thu, 05 December 2013 20:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] Is id-pkinit-san misnamed? Can it be reused by kca?
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On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 01:18 -0600, Nico Williams wrote:
> PKINIT (RFC4556) adds a PKIX certicate SAN (id-pkinit-san) for representing Kerberos
> principal names of AS clients and servers.
> 
> I believe that id-pkinit-san does not denote "for PKINIT", and therefore
> was misnamed.  It should have been named id-kerberos-san.

Indeed.  This was always intended to be the way to represent Kerberos
principal names in certs; PKINIT was just the first thing to get there.

-- Jeff

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