RE: Embedded certificate image

[Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess that if the image is embedded in the URL, you don't really need to follow it, just process it locally.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Gutmann
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:10 AM
To: ietf-pkix@xxxxxxx; stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Embedded certificate image


Stefan Santesson <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>It seems that there are ways to store base64 encoded data in a URL. Since all
>images are located through a URL, this opens interesting possibilities if the
>URL actually contains the image data itself.

How big are these things going to get?  Anything beyond about 1024 characters
and you start running into problems with things that reject over-long URLs.

Peter.


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