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Re: SigningCertificate and IssuerAndSerialNumber.

1998-05-18 09:17:52
Denis,

A hash of the certificate covers the signature.

Mike

At 03:00 PM 5/18/98 -0700, Denis Pinkas wrote:

My E-mail is advocating *against* the use of the hash of the
certificate. Instead it is advocating for the use of the same structure
in the PKIX WG and the SMIME WG. A hash is needed, but it is NOT the
hash of the certificate, but the hash of the issuer public key.

This would allow to make the difference between two CAs having the same
name.