Re: [pkix] Should a CRL be required for an OCSP service provider to assert status.

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Tue, 14 June 2016 17:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] Should a CRL be required for an OCSP service provider to assert status.
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Erwann,

Thanks for the clarification. Seems the scope of this private extension 
is even narrower than I thought.

Steve


> Bonjour,
>
> 2016-06-13 23:06 GMT+02:00 Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com 
> <mailto:kent@bbn.com>>:
>
>     [...]
>
>     Yes, the EU defined a _private_ extension (CertHash) to support
>     the notion of expanding the scope of OCSP. If an OCSP server
>     operator assumes that all of the OCSP clients it deals with
>     recognize this private, non-critical extension, then it is
>     obviously free to make use of it.
>
>
> s/EU/Germany/
>
> Thinking EU leads to eIDAS, and this CertHash isn't part of ETSI 
> standards used for eIDAS.
>
> -- 
> Erwann.