Eddy, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > > The page says: "One noteworthy detail are the issuer and serial number > fields, those most be provided in their encoded form (*as stored in the > certificate*) and transformed to base64." > > What does that mean? Is it HEX like 0x0 or 0 or the binary value of the > serial or something else? As reference I tried to decode N0rSQw== which > gave me 7JÒC (garbage?) What would the serial 0x1 be for a practical > example?
I believe it refers to the ASN.1 DER encoding (tag, length, value) of the serial number and issuer fields. You can use a tool like derdump to view the DER encoding for each field. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
