<apologies to those that might see this more than once>
Peter Gutmann wrote:
"William Whyte" <wwhyte(_at_)baltimore(_dot_)ie> writes:
There seems to be an inconsistency between X9.42 and RFC 2459 about how to
encode Diffie-Hellman public keys.
During RFC 2459's draft stages this was changed to the current form when it
was pointed out that the X9.42 version was essentially unworkable (it
required complicated and unnecessary processing of the value which is
incompatible with the way any other subjectPublicKey is handled, and it's
practically guaranteed that implementors will get it wrong in a variety of
ways which will cause all sorts of headaches - the values will look right
and even work properly, they just won't give the expected results when used
with implementations which do it differently to however you're doing it).
Cool (and a welcome gesture towards fixing broken stuff). So why do we
use their OID?
Peter.
Andrew.