Re: [secdir] Review of draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-06

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Wed, 18 October 2017 18:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] Review of draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-06
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> For the public key field the document specifies:
> 
> subjectPublicKey BIT STRING
> 
> Shouldn't this be OCTET STRING?  The same for signatureValue.

It is a BIT STRING; see RFC 5280.

Russ