In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:42:46 -0700, Michael Sierchio
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kudzu> Fiel Cabral wrote:
kudzu>
kudzu> > But if the certificate is a sub CA certificate, then is
kudzu> > there a way to find out? Are X.509 v1 or v2 sub CA
kudzu> > certificates common?
kudzu>
kudzu> V2? Fickt nicht mit der raeketenmensch! Perhapssss you mean
kudzu> to say V1 or V3?
v2 exists, but has seldom been used in real life...
kudzu> If the cert is a sub-CA cert then it is not self-signed.
kudzu> Unless there is some quantum subtlety that I am missing
kudzu> here.
I don't think that was a question either.
The answer is that no, there is no way to distiguish sub-CA
certificates from user certificates (i.e. v1 and v2 user certificates
can be used as sub-CA certificates).
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