Rick, thanks for this.  Good catch!

Yes, parentheses would definitely be better.

On 28/03/14 16:46, Rick Andrews wrote:
We see another potential issue with the proposed PRIVATE option. Rob’s
current proposal would have us replace a domain label with the literal
string “<PRIVATE>” (without the quotes). However, we try to encode DN
components as PrintableString where possible, and angle brackets are not
part of the PrintableString set (the lowercase letters 'a' through 'z',
uppercase letters 'A' through 'Z', the digits '0' through '9', eleven
special characters ' = ( ) + , - . / : ? and space).
As a result, the type of the DN component would be PrintableString in
the real cert but utf8String in the pre-certificate, and that would
cause problems. I suggest using parentheses instead of angle brackets.
-Rick

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Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online

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