Re: Embedded certificate image

[Stefan Santesson <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly


On 09-07-30 6:26 AM, "Yoav Nir" <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 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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