Santosh Chokhani wrote:
We must fix X.509 since it is not broken.
I am not suggesting that we should fix X.509, I am pointing out, in my
own roundabout way, that X.509 certs are supposed to have a canonical
form. But it seems they do not.
Makes me wonder why we go to all the effort of using a supposedly
canonical encoding that isn't? If we can only rely on the original bits
in the cert when checking the signature, why bother?
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