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RE: Long Name Requirements

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 23 February 2009 17:17 UTC

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:50:11 -0800
To: Erik Andersen <era@x500.eu>, egulacti@uekae.tubitak.gov.tr, ietf-pkix@imc.org
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Subject: RE: Long Name Requirements
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At 3:56 PM +0100 2/23/09, Erik Andersen wrote:
>In the latest edition of X.509, we removed the length restrictions on
>attribute types. The PKIX group did not follow suit, but retained the length
>restriction. A field of 500 characters will not comply with RFC 5280, but it
>will comply with the X.509 itself, and that is what is important.

Different people might have differing opinions about which standard is "important".

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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