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RE: X9.42 and RFC2459 inconsistency?

1999-08-06 13:36:49
I would object to changing this.  I have code which has shipped and uses
these OIDs.

jim


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Farrell [mailto:afarrell(_at_)baltimore(_dot_)ie]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:22 AM
To: ietf-pkix(_at_)imc(_dot_)org; ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: X9.42 and RFC2459 inconsistency? 


I wrote:

Cool (and a welcome gesture towards fixing broken stuff). So why do we
use their OID?

Sine there's been a deafing silence on this topic, I have two further
questions:

(1) Are there any deployed codebases which would object to changing the
Diffie-Hellman OID in rfc2459 to reflect the fact that it has different
semantics than in X9.42? 

I know that John Pawling has stated that Van Dyke's S/MIME Freeware
Library has no issues, and as far as I know Microsoft haven't shipped
anything with Diffie-Hellman, so that S/MIME would appear to be in the
clear on this.

(2) Are there any other groups that profile 2459 that we should ask
about this?.

Andrew

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