Bonsoir Stephen,

2015-02-27 22:16 GMT+01:00 Stephen Kent <[email protected]>:

> Erwann,
>
>> The "TLS" syntax/notation is also used to describe certificates and
>> messages in ITS world. It's very bad, but that's not RFC5246 authors's
>> fault.
>>
> What is the "ITS" world? And is it under the IETF standards umbrella? if
> not, then this is
> not a good rationale for veering from the statement in 5246.
>

"Intelligent Transport System". Cars, trucks, motorbikes, tramways, trains,
road equipment, ... See IEEE1609.2 and ETSI TS103097 if you're curious :)
That's not (yet) under IETF umbrella. Point taken.

X.509 permits the inclusion of anything in an extension, as long as it's
>> enclosed in something that has an ASN.1+DER representation, whence the
>> double OCTET STRING sometimes found. That's not new to CT.
>>
> True, but I think that is not commonly done in standard extensions. Do you
> have some examples
> that counter my perception? In my experience, people developing extensions
> for
> X.509 usually try to avoid cramming arbitrary data into an OCTET string.
>

You're right again. I can't think of a single extension except
SignedCertificateTimestampList defined in anything other than ASN.1. When
working around X.509, ASN.1 is natural.

Going back into "silent lurker" mode...

-- 
Erwann.
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