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Question about the edition of RFC 3280

Denis Pinkas <Denis.Pinkas@bull.net> Mon, 07 April 2003 09:37 UTC

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Subject: Question about the edition of RFC 3280
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Dear web editor,

An e-mail from the RFC editor dated from May 10, 2002 states:

===================================================================

A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

         RFC 3280

         Title:      Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
                     Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
                     Profile
         Author(s):  R. Housley, W. Polk, W. Ford, D. Solo
         Status:     Standards Track
         Date:       April 2002
         Mailbox:    rhousley@rsasecurity.com, wford@verisign.com,
                     wpolk@nist.gov, dsolo@alum.mit.edu
         Pages:      129
         Characters: 295556
         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pkix-new-part1-12.txt

====================================================================

The text that was draft-ietf-pkix-new-part1-12.txt is the following:

       "The digitalSignature bit is asserted when the subject public key
       is used with a digital signature mechanism to support security
       services other than non-repudiation (bit 1), certificate signing
       (bit 5), or CRL signing (bit 6).  Digital signature mechanisms are
       often used for entity authentication and data origin
       authentication with integrity."

while the text that is in RFC 3280 is the following:

       "The digitalSignature bit is asserted when the subject public key
       is used with a digital signature mechanism to support security
       services other than certificate signing (bit 5), or CRL signing
       (bit 6).  Digital signature mechanisms are often used for entity
       authentication and data origin authentication with integrity."

I would like to know, how/when such a change happened.

Thanks,

Denis

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