On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 7:26:14 AM UTC-8, Jakob Bohm wrote:
> 
> No, I am suggesting that while *still* listing it as a problematic
> practice for an edge case from a few few CAs, Mozilla offers those few
> CAs an easier way out, while at the same time obtaining for both itself
> and any other implementors (such as Google's BoringSSL and Microsoft's
> CNG) a table of the only values that code for that edge case will need
> to handle.
> 
> I was also suggesting, that if, after gathering data, the resulting
> table is very small, using the table in code might be easier than
> coding an algorithm that matches certificates to issuers and CRLs for
> all the needed non-identical cases.  This however would be an
> implementation choice, as any other algorithm giving correct results
> would solve the problem.
>


There is a bug to "Make OneCRL name comparisons encoding agnostic"...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330968

But we'll still call it out as a problematic practice.

Cheers,
Kathleen
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