RE: Clarification request on RFC 2560

[Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

See section 4.1.2. It is explained over there.

Regards,
Ambarish

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Ambarish Malpani
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Pinkas [mailto:Denis.Pinkas@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:20 AM
> To: pkix
> Cc: Mike Myers
> Subject: Clarification request on RFC 2560
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In RFC 2560 section 4.2.1 (OCSP Response), we have
> 
> BasicOCSPResponse       ::= SEQUENCE {
>       tbsResponseData      ResponseData,
>       signatureAlgorithm   AlgorithmIdentifier,
>       signature            BIT STRING,
>       certs                [0] EXPLICIT SEQUENCE OF 
> Certificate OPTIONAL }
> 
> Usually every ASN1 field is explained, but in that document 
> the certs field
> is not explained.
> 
> Should that optional field be interpreted to carry a sequence 
> of possibly
> useful certificates ?
> 
> Denis
>