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

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 05 December 2013 20:50 UTC

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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:50:07 -0600
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [kitten] Is id-pkinit-san misnamed? Can it be reused by kca?
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:45:13PM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  Should we file an erratum against RFC4556 to rename it?

Nico
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