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Re: Inclusion of the issuer and serial number in authenticated in formation

1998-03-20 09:30:01
There is no final position yet, but it seems that we are going towards
the following structure:

CertUID ::=     SEQUENCE {
     issuerDN           Name,
     issuerAltName      IssuerAltName OPTIONAL,  -- As defined in PKIX
     serial             CertificateSerialNumber,
     certificateHash    CertHash
}

This allows the support of alternate names and the certificate hash
allows to make the difference between certificates that would be issued
by CAs having the same name.

In any case, I would recommend that the pkix group and the smime group
adopt the same structure.

Denis

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