Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-pkalgs-04.txt

"Housley, Russ" <rhousley@rsasecurity.com> Thu, 18 October 2001 20:31 UTC

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From: "Housley, Russ" <rhousley@rsasecurity.com>
To: Hans Schupp <schupp@secude.com>
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Hans:

>There is an inconsistency in the declaration of
>id-characteristic-two-basis. In the text it is declared as {
>characteristic-two-field basisType(1) } (on page 16) while in the ASN.1
>Module it says { characteristic-two-field basisType(3) }.
>
>IMHO the latter one is correct (according to X9.62).
>Can you please clarify and correct the draft?

You are correct.  My copy of X9.62 says:

         id-characteristic-two-basis OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {
                 characteristic-two-field basisType(3) }

The body of the document is wrong, and the ASN.1 module is correct.

Russ