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Re: Inclusion of a Status code within a TSAToken



Terry Hayes wrote:

For time-stamps ...

> The token itself should be the "this is a valid token" statement.  It is a
> SignedData object, it has the proper content type OID, and is signed correctly
> by a valid TSA.  There is no need for an additional status field in the token.

I think there are some cases were warnings might be issued,
without preventing the time-stamp to be granted.
Either these warnings go into free data, or somehow get
a code that fits into the status code.
I prefer a field to encode them.

For error responses ...

> In summary - we need message imprint and/or nonce along with the error code.
> That's it.

Exactly.

Best,
pp

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