Re: [pkix] EKU for intermediate certificates

Carl Wallace <carl@redhoundsoftware.com> Thu, 04 February 2016 18:19 UTC

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:19:46 -0500
From: Carl Wallace <carl@redhoundsoftware.com>
To: Peter Bowen <pzbowen@gmail.com>
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That rather misses the point, no? But you know that.

On 2/4/16, 1:11 PM, "Peter Bowen" <pzbowen@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Carl Wallace <carl@redhoundsoftware.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> On 2/4/16, 12:17 PM, "Peter Bowen" <pzbowen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>The CA/Browser Forum sets standards for Certification Authorities.  It
>>>does not set requirements on implementers of path validation.
>>
>> Does this mean there would be no issue with defining a flag to allow for
>> EKU semantics to be selected, since we now have two? Else we will rely
>>on
>> folklore to know which implementations do what.
>
>If you are writing your own path validation code, I don't see why not.
>You are welcome to code however you want.
>
>Thanks,
>Peter