On 3/29/11 8:25 AM, Manger, James H wrote:

> 2. URI in cert
> 
> Requiring a certificate to include a
> subjectAltName.uniformResourceIdentifier (san.uri) seems to exclude a
> lots of potential certs, without a great reason.
> 
> Do XMPP ids typically get put in certs as URIs
> (san.uri=xmpp:[email protected]), or as a dedicated name-form
> ([email protected])?

There is an OID called "id-on-XmppAddr", but you're right that it could
be a URI.

> An email address can be expressed as a URI (eg
> mailto:[email protected]), but a corresponding certificate is likely to
> include a san.rfc822 value, not a san.uri.

Correct. It would be nice to standardize on one subjectAlternativeName
extension, but I don't think that's very likely given wide deployment of
things like rfc822name.

Peter

-- 
Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/



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