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UserID/Auth Field in Open-PGP certs

1997-08-28 13:59:45
Open-PGP certificates should support both...
        1) Identity
        2) Autherization

wrt Identity, Open-PGP should have the ability to handle other 
types of naming conventions than just the usual RFC822. In order 
to preserve previous implementations, we should make a new packet 
type that would be the new Generic Name packet.

The UserID field (currently a 255 charater octet string) 
could handle other types, such as...

OpenPGPGenericName ::= CHOICE {
        otherName                       [0]     INSTANCE OF OTHER-NAME,
        rfc822Name                      [1]     255 Octet String,
        dNSName                [2]      IA5String,
        x400Address                    [3]      ORAddress,
        directoryName                  [4]      Name,
        ediPartyName                   [5]      EDIPartyName,
        uniformResourceIdentifier       [6]     IA5String,
        iPAddress                       [7]     OCTET STRING,
        registeredID                    [8]     OBJECT IDENTIFIER }

the OCTET STRING containing the IP-Address
"123.124.125.126" should be coded like:
'7B7C7D7E'H
  | | | |
123 | | | 
  124 | |
    125 |
       126




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