On 27 March 2016 at 08:32, Yusuke OSUMI <[email protected]> wrote:

> Eran,
>
> Thanks, I get the picture!
> I also think "precertificate and issued certificate have the same serial
> number" is weird and strange, so this change is welcome.
>

Note that the precertificate still has the same serial number as the
certificate. Its just that it is not a certificate anymore.


>
>
> 2016年3月27日日曜日 6時58分01秒 UTC+9 Eran Messeri:
>>
>> [+trans mailing list]
>> The poison extension was removed because it is no longer necessary - the
>> purpose was to allow creating a pre-certificate in the form of an unusable
>> X.509 certificate (the poison extension is a critical extension that made
>> an otherwise valid X.509 certificate unusable).
>>
>> In 6962-bis the pre-certificate is encoded using Cryptographic Message
>> Syntax (CMS), not X.509 certificates, so the poison extension is no longer
>> needed.
>>
>> One reason for the precertificate format transition I recall is concerns
>> that issuing two X.509 certificates with the same serial number (even
>> though one of them is unusable) is against the CA/Browsers forum Baseline
>> Requirements.
>> The related discussions can be found in the trans mailing list:
>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/trans
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Eran
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Yusuke OSUMI <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I read rfc6962-bis, and found that description of "Poison Extension (OID
>>> 1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.3)" has disappeared.
>>> I want to view a discussion about this issue(and want to know the reason
>>> why it disappeard), so can I get URLs about the discussion?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yusuke
>>>
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