In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:50:20 +0100, "Dr. Stephen Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
steve> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003, Michael Bell wrote: steve> steve> > Hi all, steve> > steve> > there is a draft for a technical corrigendum of X.509. steve> > steve> > http://www.pki-page.info/download/N12599.doc steve> > steve> > Does somebody have an idea how to integrate the replacement of steve> > nonRepudiation by contentCommitment seamlessly into OpenSSL? I'm a steve> > little bit surprised that such an old and established standard is steve> > subject of such a basic change. steve> > steve> steve> Well it appears the only change as far as OpenSSL is concerned steve> is that the name of the bit has changed. It's easy enough to steve> change that in crypto/x509v3/v3_bitst.c That would break steve> existing config files and anything which parses the output of steve> the X509v3 print routines: something which I've strongly steve> advised against several times but some people still do it. steve> steve> The current code doesn't support two different names for the steve> same bit (if you add two it will misbehave and print out both steve> names) but its easy enough to change. I wouldn't hurry, since this is just a draft, and if I read a certain comment in ietf-pkix properly, there may be diverging opinions on this particular issue. ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. You don't have to be rich, a $10 donation is appreciated! -- Richard Levitte \ Tunnlandsvägen 3 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ S-168 36 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
