Another reason people or corporations may not want an
email address in their certificates is that a directory
containing certificates now becomes yet another mail list
source for spammers.
Larry
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From:
Kent(_dot_)Lancaster(_at_)pwgsc(_dot_)gc(_dot_)ca[SMTP:Kent(_dot_)Lancaster(_at_)pwgsc(_dot_)gc(_dot_)ca]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 11:06 AM
To: ginsburg(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org; ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Cc: Bill(_dot_)Aitken(_at_)pwgsc(_dot_)gc(_dot_)ca;
Bruce(_dot_)Catley(_at_)pwgsc(_dot_)gc(_dot_)ca
Subject: re: draft-ietf-smime-cert
i) mandating that the email address be an RFC-822 address closes the
door on future use of X.400 to transport S/MIME. If the email address
*must* be in the certificate, subjectAltName allows it to be X.400 or
RFC-822