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Re: encoding an X.509 certificate



Peter Gutmann wrote:

If you follow the spec in this regard you get 100% unreliability, not
reliability - your PKI application when shipped will break repeatedly whenever
it encounters a non-DER certificate, while everything else will work just
fine.  So "X.509 dogma" is for X.509 dogmatists and pretty much no-one else.

Postel's Law, anyone?  :)

-- Tim

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