Re: [pkix] subject directory attributes extension

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Mon, 31 August 2015 12:23 UTC

From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: "Miller, Timothy J." <tmiller@mitre.org>, Erik Andersen <era@x500.eu>, Directory list <x500standard@freelists.org>, SG17-Q11 <t13sg17q11@lists.itu.int>, PKIX <pkix@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [pkix] subject directory attributes extension
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Miller, Timothy J. <tmiller@mitre.org> writes:

>You could put a picture of your dog in there if you like 

For certificates, the canonical example is an MPEG of your cat, not a picture
of your dog :-).

(The last time I checked, which admittedly was 15+ years ago, browsers were
quite happy to accept certs like this, although Netscape hung for an awfully
long time loading it).

Peter.

[pkix] subject directory attributes extension Erik Andersen
Re: [pkix] subject directory attributes extension Miller, Timothy J.
Re: [pkix] subject directory attributes extension Peter Gutmann