On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 04:31:13AM -0400, Dave Thompson wrote:
> > It's my understanding that for the encoding of the number without
> > the leading 00 we need to go and add the 00 in front of it because
> > we would otherwise create a negative number and those aren't allowed
> > by RFC5280, so we would write that one with the leading 00.  But I
> > don't see a reason why the encoding can't have multiple leading 00s
> > in it, and for instance always have a fixed size.
> > 
> X.690 8.3.2.

This is a very good point which I actually knew but forgot about.
So I'm just going to close this ticket.


Kurt


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