Rob:

>> And if we interpret 5280 strictly and conclude that is still a
>> good plan then the question would be what to do about the SCT
>> encoding, which could be to do something hacky like prepending
>> another OCTET STRING tag and a length I suppose,
> 
> Stephen, RFC6962 does precisely that, and the current 6962-bis text aims to 
> do the same.
> 
> Adding yet another OCTET STRING would turn it into an OCTET STRING inside an 
> OCTET STRING inside an OCTET STRING!
> 
> I'd be surprised if Russ or Steve Kent would consider that to be any better 
> than the current plan (an OCTET STRING inside an OCTET STRING).

I will not speak for Steve Kent.  But I do not think tat an extra OCTET STRING 
wrapping is the way to go.  Sure, it would legalistically conform to the words 
in RFC 5280, but I think the straightforward use of ASN.1 would be better.

Russ

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