Why not add comments to the bug report instead of the mailing list?
I guess it is not intentional.

2010/6/23 Wolf Geldmacher <[email protected]>:
> The serialNumber is the equivalent of UUID for a person and does not
> change.

Is the serialNumber unique for one CA only or for all the CAs?
Or is it possible to have the same serialNumber issued by two different CAs?

> A person can have several SuisseID's issued to the him/her containing
> different email addresses and possibly associations to one/more
> different companies, issued by different CA's (even concurrently!).
>
> As long as it's the same individual the serialNumber remains the same.
>
> Also: There already is a second certificate (certificate #5) on the
> token (only used for qualified signatures right now) that shows the
> deal:
>
> - Subject:   /CN=Wolf Geldmacher (Qualified
> Signature)/[email protected]/serialNumber=1300-0010-7568-6942
> - Issuer:    /C=CH/O=SwissSign AG/CN=SwissSign Qualified Platinum CA
> 2010 - G2
> - Algorithm: rsaEncryption
>
> -> Different CA, Different CN, same serialNumber

I guess the two certificates have two different private keys.
How pam_pkcs11 is supposed to know which public key to use if you only
give it the serialNumber matching two certificates?

pam_pkcs11 will just use the first certificate it finds that match the
serialNumber?

> Of course I could list (and maintain) each possibility on each machine,

Yes, you could :-)

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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