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Title : The PKIX UserGroupName GeneralName Type
Author(s) : M. StJohns
Filename : draft-ietf-pkix-usergroup-01.txt
Pages : 14
Date : 2002-9-25
A number of systems which understand X.509 client certificates have
developed various ad hoc mechanisms to map a certificate to a
'userid'/'group(s)' value which can then be used for access control.
The mechanisms include idiosyncratic name forms for the SubjectName
field such as encoding the userid as a CommonName and the group as an
OrganizationalUnit, or mapping the certificate against an entry in a
directory system. This document describes an otherName extension of
the GeneralName type which can be used in the SubjectAltName
extension or IssuerAltName extension to directly encode userid and
group information.
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