Re: [opensc-devel] Documentation sanity checks

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Stuge
Peter Stuge wrote: > As for incomplete, that suggests to me going beyond a technical > requirement, ie. does the CN actually include all subject's middle > initials? Or at least to policy; is subject OU required and missing? //Peter ___ opensc-devel ma

Re: [opensc-devel] Documentation sanity checks

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Stuge
Brian Thomas wrote: > The subject of the requirement is to verify that "malformed" or > "incomplete" certificates cannot be loaded on to the card. As you may know, X.509 is a low level standard, so what is considered malformed in one circumstance may be unproblematic in another. Much more specifi

Re: [opensc-devel] Documentation sanity checks

2011-02-25 Thread Martin Paljak
On Feb 25, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Brian Thomas wrote: > The subject of the requirement is to verify that "malformed" or > "incomplete" certificates cannot be loaded on to the card. I'd assume OpenSSL (which is used to read and parse the certificates) does some basic syntax/format checks. But go on, v

Re: [opensc-devel] Documentation sanity checks

2011-02-25 Thread Brian Thomas
r Stuge Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:19 AM To: opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org Subject: Re: [opensc-devel] Documentation sanity checks Brian Thomas wrote: > I need to prove to our customer that OpenSC performs some sort of > sanity checking before loading a certificate on to a smart

Re: [opensc-devel] Documentation sanity checks

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Stuge
Brian Thomas wrote: > I need to prove to our customer that OpenSC performs some sort of > sanity checking before loading a certificate on to a smart card. Sanity checking of what? If the requirement is not qualified any further then that is one stupid requirement. > PKCS15-init does some kind o

[opensc-devel] Documentation sanity checks

2011-02-25 Thread Brian Thomas
Hello, I need to prove to our customer that OpenSC performs some sort of sanity checking before loading a certificate on to a smart card. I know that PKCS15-init does some kind of checking because when I attempt to load a certificate on the card after modifying it with a text editor, it fails