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Re: [pkix] RFC 5280 and example of a self signed end-entity certificate?

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Sun, 20 November 2016 10:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] RFC 5280 and example of a self signed end-entity certificate?
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> On 20 Nov 2016, at 10:05, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Does anyone know where I might find an example of a elf-signed end-entity
>>> certificate?
>> 
>> By finding an elf and getting them to sign one for you?  Alternatively, if you
>> want a *self*-signed EE cert, by signing one yourself?  Or am I missing
>> something here...
> 
> My bad. I wanted an IETF reference one; not a random one crated by an
> external tool.

Well, you generate one with an external tool; then you copy the result into an Internet Draft, and then you have an IETF reference one…

Of course you can perform all the calculations yourself and hand-encode the DER, but that looks too hard and error-prone to me.

Yoav

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