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RE: Long Name Requirements

"Erik Andersen" <era@x500.eu> Mon, 23 February 2009 17:46 UTC

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From: Erik Andersen <era@x500.eu>
To: 'Paul Hoffman' <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, egulacti@uekae.tubitak.gov.tr, ietf-pkix@imc.org
Subject: RE: Long Name Requirements
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:24:10 +0100
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I was not trying to rate standards, just to express that even a field is
longer than 64 characters, it still complies.

Erik Andersen
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hoffman [mailto:paul.hoffman@vpnc.org] 
Sent: 23. februar 2009 17:50
To: Erik Andersen; egulacti@uekae.tubitak.gov.tr; ietf-pkix@imc.org
Subject: RE: Long Name Requirements

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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