Re: Pseudonym in Subject DN (in QC certificates)

[Stefan Santesson <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes David, That's actually what i meant but maybe didn't express very clearly.

/Stefan

At 20:11 1999-08-27 +0100, David Chadwick wrote:
>Stefan wrote
>
>> Taking this into consideration I think that we should go forward and
>> include the pseudonym attribute.
>> This will force us to expand the set of supported attributes compared to
>> RFC 2459 and also to add matching rules for this attribute.
>
>You do not need to define any new matching rules if you make the 
>syntax of pseudonyms the same as commonName, and use the 
>same matching rules as for commonName. Then all you are doing is 
>attaching a new meaning to the value that was previously called a 
>commonName but was really a pseudonym in disguise.
>
>David
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