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<a href="https://gitlab.com/dkg">Daniel Kahn Gillmor</a> created an issue: <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1243">#1243</a>
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<p dir="auto">over <a href="https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/spasm/dDB3vVtC1K8SbA8KBGFKLoeXnRc/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">on the IETF LAMPS mailing list</a>, David Cooper writes:</p>
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<p>I noticed that the attributes in the issuer and subject fields of the certificates are encoded in the reverse order of what one would expect.</p>
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<p dir="auto">In particular, the expectation is that the ASN.1 wire encoding lists the more general fields first.  So, for example, "O" (organizationalName) should come before "OU" (organizationalUnit, a subset of the organization), and "C" (country) should come before "ST" (state).</p>
<p dir="auto">(note that the <em>visualization</em> of the DN is typically the reverse of the wire encoding; the work done to close <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/111" data-original="#111" data-link="false" data-link-reference="false" data-project="179611" data-issue="2596504" data-reference-type="issue" data-container="body" data-placement="top" title="gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn and  gnutls_x509_rdn_get are not RFC4514 compliant" class="gfm gfm-issue has-tooltip">#111</a> is correct, the problem is the wire encoding)</p>

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