Re: Long Name Requirements

Nelson B Bolyard <nelson@bolyard.me> Tue, 24 February 2009 06:08 UTC

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Stefan Santesson wrote, On 2009-02-23 14:36:
> While RFC 5280 has retained upper bounds for backwards compatibility I would
> not expect products on the market to enforce them. 

I can name products that do enforce it, when encoding a DER DN from some
(any) other form.