Re: Embedded certificate image

"Timothy J. Miller" <tmiller@mitre.org> Fri, 31 July 2009 17:34 UTC

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From: "Timothy J. Miller" <tmiller@mitre.org>
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Subject: Re: Embedded certificate image
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Santosh Chokhani wrote:

> RFC says "The relationship between the subject organization and the
> subject
>    organization logotype, and the relationship between the issuer and
>    either the issuer organization logotype or the community logotype,
>    are relationships asserted by the issuer."
> 
> It tends to imply that the logotype is predefined data and not in the
> certificate request payload.

I'd feel better if it were explicit that the subject logotype is 
provided by the issuer.

As it is, I think it can be read either way.  The issuer asserts 
everything in the cert, after all, but it didn't create it all; much was 
provided by the applicant.

-- Tim