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

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Tue, 31 March 2015 20:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] a question of cert (and OCSP) extension syntax
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On 3/31/15 12:20 PM, Peter Yee wrote:
> Having sat through a week of
> ASN.1-bashing/text-encoding-glorifying in Dallas, my point is simply
> that the alleged difficulty in handling ASN.1 is overblown and should
> not be used in making the argument against using an ASN.1 encoding of
> the extension value. 

It's not being made in trans.

Melinda