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Re: Encoding e-mail addresses as DN's: draft

1994-03-15 18:24:00
On Tue, 15 Mar 1994, Jeff Thompson wrote:

The Persona responder requires exactly one extra attribute, which must
be a common name, beyond the OU=Persona Certificate.  This is to
prevent people from trying to stick in organization attributes that
make it look (to unwitting users) that they work for that
organization.

Reasonable I suppose.  Would it be possible to at least allow the RM 
attribute so that the e-mail address can be embedded in RSA's persona 
certificates?  If you're paranoid, you could automatically bounce 
something with an RM attribute that doesn't match the From: or Reply-To: 
lines.  They're just as easy to forge of course, but it may help a bit.

Aside: don't think I'm giving up on my DC/RM version yet, Bob. :-)  I 
still think there's a need for it in addition to embedded addresses no 
matter how many alternative names you come up for me. :-)

Cheers,

Rhys.


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