KSBA: Using names of OID from different sources

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Jan 16 09:04:34 CET 2017


On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:23, kroosec at gmail.com said:

> Is there a reason for dn.c:append_atv() being restricted to only use names for OIDs
> which are in rfc2253 ?

Yes, because that was the standard back then.  I have not checked
whether there updates in RFC4511 - they could be added in a future
versions.  Anyway, using an OID is also just fine.

We need to restrict it to the implemented standard for interoperability
purposes.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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