[openssl-users] Strictness of comparing distinguished names

2015-10-02 Thread Jakob Bohm
Dear list, I have encountered a behavior difference between the CMS routines in OpenSSL and the equivalent functionality in another CMS implementation, and I wonder which is the correct behavior. I was examining a CMS signature made by someone else and found that some implementations accepted

Re: [openssl-users] Strictness of comparing distinguished names

2015-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> So I am wondering what the officially correct behavior is > when verifying such a case. Should the > SignerInfo.issuerAndSerialNumber.issuer be treated as > matching or as not matching a certificate in which an > otherwise identical string is tagged differently but > represents the same textual

Re: [openssl-users] Strictness of comparing distinguished names

2015-10-02 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 02/10/2015 16:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: So I am wondering what the officially correct behavior is when verifying such a case. Should the SignerInfo.issuerAndSerialNumber.issuer be treated as matching or as not matching a certificate in which an otherwise identical string is tagged