Peter,

What would you estimate is the feasibility of constructing
an SGC cert from a non-M$, non-NS root?

Andrew Hall.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Viernes 29 de Mayo de 1998 15:28
Subject: Re: [ssl-users] 128-bit on Microsoft IIS and export


>>[SGC cert]
>
>>I got one from: zvinet.creditanstalt.co.at
>
>Thanks for that.  Apart from the standard keyUsage and use of an obsolete
>certificatePolicies extension containing the usual Verisign policies and
>qualifiers, the extension of interest is:
>
>1157 30   32:  SEQUENCE {
>1159 06    3:    OBJECT IDENTIFIER extKeyUsage (2 5 29 37)
>1164 04   25:    OCTET STRING, encapsulates {
>1166 30   23:        SEQUENCE {
>1168 06    9:          OBJECT IDENTIFIER
>            :            serverGatedCrypto (2 16 840 1 113730 4 1)
>            :            (Netscape)
>1179 06   10:          OBJECT IDENTIFIER
>            :            serverGatedCrypto (1 3 6 1 4 1 311 10 3 3)
>            :            (Microsoft enhanced key usage)
>            :          }
>            :        }
>
>Interestingly, this enables SGC for both MSIE and Netscape in a single
cert.
>
>I don't have the necessary tools/software here to check this at the moment,
but
>is the signing cert - 'VeriSign International Server CA - Class 3' -
available
>from the browser?  It's not one of the standard ones included with MSIE or
>Netscape, unless it was in a version newer than the ones I examined.
>
>Peter.
>
>
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