Re: encoding an X.509 certificate

["Tom Scavo" <trscavo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Anders Rundgren
<anders.rundgren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It was fascinating to hear about a debate starting 7 years after the specification became finalized!

A significant observation, surely.

> I can't really tell based on the XML Dsig but it appears that the interpretation is DER
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/security/cert/Certificate.html#getEncoded()
> since this is the only decoding available, in at least in standard Java.

Good point.

> Presumably other decodings are incompatible with existing libraries as well.

That is one thing I'm trying to find out, yes.

> I would call this a de-facto standard for XML.

Thanks,
Tom