Re: [TSP/RFC3161] PKIFailureInfo values

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

Ricardo Barroso <ricardo.barroso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Since a BIT STRING can hold several bit values that can be either 1 or 0, is
>it supposed that a BIT STRING representing a PKIFailureInfo MUST has ONLY one
>bit (correspondent to one of the defined possible values) or can a
>PKIFailuereInfo has more than one bit with value 1 wich means that it can
>indicates more than one valid failure reasons?

I think this stuff was taken from RFC 2511... the assumption is that you can
return several values, the practice is that no-one ever does, so it ends up
acting as a clunky enum.

Peter.