[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> What do You think? May I use the netscape_comment extension to hold my
> application specific information in text form (maybe in base64)?
>
Well you could I suppose but that would be a non standard use of it. If
you've got your own OID you could simply add a new OID as an alias to
netscape_comment and it would be handled in the same way. Thats one case
where its easy to add new extensions.
Steve.
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