Re: Web-PKI Keygen/Certreq Questions

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

Jean-Marc Desperrier <jmdesp@xxxxxxx> writes:

>Have a look at the way CRMF format key request generation are used inside
>Netscape 7/Mozilla.

That's a special case because CRMF was designed to handle this situation.
However, most apps (based on traffic in crypto newsgroups/mailing lists) are
still using PKCS #10, which wasn't (it dates back to X.509v1, so you can't
really blame it for that).

Peter.