On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Stefan H. Holek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25.03.2014, at 17:44, Zack Williams wrote:
>
>> ...
>> 3. Is there a reason to not set a pathLen in the basicConstraints
>> section of the Root CA's (to 1, to allow a maximum of one layer of
>> CA's below the Root), but to do so on the Intermediate CA's?
>
> Pathlen is not used on root CA certs. ...
RFC 5280 might disagree. For example, section 6.1.2 (k):
(k) max_path_length: this integer is initialized to n, is
decremented for each non-self-issued certificate in the path,
and may be reduced to the value in the path length constraint
field within the basic constraints extension of a CA
certificate.
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