Hello Kyle,

can you elaborate on the quoted statement ? Since the RFC-5280 describes the
profile for certificates and CRLs, how OpenSSL's generated certificates are not
compatible with it? If you are referring to the configuration used, that's not
really a concern of the OpenSSL's team, but if there are wrong encoding
rules in the library can you point them out, please ?

Cheers,
Max


On 07/13/2010 09:09 PM, aerow...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
There's also the need to ensure that the certificates that OpenSSL comes
up with are compatible with X.509 and PKIX (they are *not* currently
compatible with the latest version of PKIX, which is in RFC 5280; it's
[...]


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