[gnutls-devel] X.509 "Key Identifiers" in GnuTLS

[Peter Williams]

Can u say why this was so important.

To me, on one level, it's the difference between binary vs denary. Ie. who cares (once you have a certain education level)?

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On Mar 12, 2013, at 4:24 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:

> On 03/06/2013 07:05 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>> On 03/06/2013 11:17 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> 
>>> So i think the only thing that remains is to document why this is a
>>> divergence from the RFC's "Common Method" -- and i think we have several
>>> good reasons.
>>> Nikos, would you be averse to a changeset that adds a bit of
>>> documentation about how this distinction is made?
>> 
>> This would be good.
> 
> I've just pushed 7381666 to the master branch with a concise summary of
> the difference between GnuTLS's method and the "Common Method" for
> choosing a key ID.  Nikos, as always, please let me know if you think
> the commit is problematic in any way.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>    --dkg
> 
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