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Yes. The spec is often such a confused mess that even the people who wrote it are surprised by what it requires. One example was when someone on the PKIX list
by pseudohadamard 10mo ago
Yes.
The spec is often such a confused mess that even the people who wrote it are surprised by what it requires. One example was when someone on the PKIX list spent some time explaining to X.509 standards people what it was that their own standard required, which they had been unaware of until then.
- rout39574 10mo agoGot any links to that conversation? Sounds fun.
- pseudohadamard 10mo agoTechnically yes because I saved the messages, which I saw as a fine illustration of the state of the PKI standards mess. However I'd have to figure out which search term to use to locate them again ("X.509" probably won't cut it). I'll see what I can do.
- pseudohadamard 10mo agoI'm drawing a blank on it sorry, it's somewhere in an archive of messages but I can't find the appropriate search term to locate it. However it did turn up a reference to something else, namely this, https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt. It hasn't been updated for a long time but it does document some of the crazy that's in those standards. The various Lovecraft references I think are quite appropriate.