Re: UserID/Auth Field in Open-PGP certs

   Assar,

   I think we should avoid ASN.1 encoding rules at all cost, BUT if we
   are to do anything with a native X.509 cert...

   CB

At 02:55 AM 8/29/97 +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> Charles Breed <cbreed(_at_)pgp(_dot_)com> writes:
> > 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 }
> Do you actually propose using an ASN.1-related format or did you just
> happen to write it in this format?
>
> /assar