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Re: [pkix] a question of cert (and OCSP) extension syntax

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 18 March 2015 07:10 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> writes:

>it's what's in the document until someone can either point to some normative
>specification that it violates or can point to something that actually would
>break.

This isn't a case of standards rules-lawyering though (in any case the PKIX
spec is flexible enough that you can stuff anything you want into a
certificate if you interpret things just right, see the famous MPEG-of-cat
quote), it's that this is creating a situation where an *X.509 standards-
compliant certificate* contains data that can't be processed by an *X.509
standards-compliant certificate application*.

Peter.

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