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Re: Is DER required

1993-06-14 14:24:00


   >From: jefft(_at_)COM(_dot_)RSA (Jeff Thompson)
   >Subject: Is DER required
   >Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 13:29:28 PDT

   >
   >>   PEM does not mandate DER for transmission, but encourages it.
   >
                 (transporting an encoded
   >     representation of the certificate in X.509 [7] DER form)

X.509 Certificate refers to `Name' twice, as opposed
to `DistinguishedName'. Is it reasonable to assume that the
distinguished encoding of any one of the valid instances of this
type is the schema-ordered DistinguishedName identifier value?

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