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Re: Long Name Requirements

Stefan Santesson <stefans@exmsft.com> Tue, 24 February 2009 07:33 UTC

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:12:54 +0100
Subject: Re: Long Name Requirements
From: Stefan Santesson <stefans@exmsft.com>
To: Nelson B Bolyard <nelson@bolyard.me>, ietf-pkix@imc.org
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Feel free to enlighten me/us.

This is of course significant even though less of an issue if its limited to
creation of certificates. I was more thinking of decoding and validation of
certificates.

/Stefan

On 2/24/09 6:41 AM, "Nelson B Bolyard" <nelson@bolyard.me> wrote:

> 
> Stefan Santesson wrote, On 2009-02-23 14:36:
>> While RFC 5280 has retained upper bounds for backwards compatibility I would
>> not expect products on the market to enforce them.
> 
> I can name products that do enforce it, when encoding a DER DN from some
> (any) other form.
>

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