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Key-Info field

1993-03-03 07:02:00

I'm extremely puzzled by the following paragraph from RFC 1421:

   4.6.4.2  Key-Info Field

   One "Key-Info:" field is included for each of a message's named
   recipients.  In addition, it is recommended that PEM implementations
   support (as a locally-selectable option) the ability to include a
   "Key-Info:" field corresponding to a PEM message's originator,
   following an Originator-ID or "Originator-Certificate:" field and
   before any associated Recipient-ID fields, but inclusion of such a
   field is not a requirement for conformance with this RFC.

Does anyone know what the semantics of this locally-selectable option are?
That is, if you see a Key-Info field immediately following an Originator-
Certificate, what do you do with its contents and what does this tell you
about the message?

Mike


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