Re: [Trans] Precertificate format

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Wed, 10 September 2014 15:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Precertificate format
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Brian,

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>> Can you re-state your proposal. I'm confused, in part because one does
>> not sign anything using a cert; one verifies a signed thing using a public
>> key from a cert.
> Rick and Carl did a good job of explaining why my line of reasoning
> didn't make sense in the first place, regardless of my poor choice of
> terminology.
no problem. people often refer to certs "signing" stuff; I have
a compulsion to note the error every time I see it :-).
> By the way, in draft -04 there are similar abuses of terminology that
> should be cleaned up. Here's one example, "The resulting
> TBSCertificate [RFC5280] is then signed with either [...] a
> special-purpose [...] Precertificate Signing Certificate [...] or, the
> CA certificate that will sign the final certificate." There are
> probably more.
I believe I noted these terminology problems in -03, in my review.

Steve