Digital signature applet

2008-04-28 Thread Paul Santapau
Hello, We would like to announce here that the University Jaume I has developed a multi porpouse digital signature applet that allows Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox to do digital signatures on client side. The applet is able to deal with mozilla's software pkcs#11 and it is

EV email usage

2008-04-28 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
A claim was made that EV certs don't require extended key usage, but allow Signing, Key Encipherment, Data Encipherment in the basic key usage field. Additionally email addresses presented in EV certs don't have to be validated. From the technical aspect, if no extended key usage like email

Re: EV email usage

2008-04-28 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote re email addresses in EV certificates: Can somebody else have also a look at this? In case the claims are correct and email address fields are allowed or required for EV SSL server certificates and *no* extended key usage is set *and* validation of the email

Re: EV email usage

2008-04-28 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Frank Hecker: I just looked at the latest EV guidelines, doing a search for various email-related terms (e.g., email, e-mail, RFC 822, rfc822, etc.) and also reading section C in detail. As far as I can tell, the guidelines do not mention email addresses in any context relating to the