QC certificates MAY CERTAINLY be compared!

["Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan,
I have said it before and I say it again.  The following QC-statement is higly doubtful:

"Comparing two qualified certificates to determine if they represent
 the same physical entity may provide misleading results and should
 not be performed"

As you know our famous (?) SEIS-card does indeed allow certificates to
be compared for subject identity.   That is IMO the whole (and only) point with *real* ID-cards!

So this is a statement of the CPS.  Not of the draft.



BTW, why no explicit support for "container ID" (card serial) as most QCs will be
put in smart cards?  It was in SEIS already.


Anders


-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Santesson <stefan@accurata.se>
To: ietf-pkix@imc.org <ietf-pkix@imc.org>
Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 14:14
Subject: New submitted draft for Qualified Certificates


>All,
>
>A new draft for a Qualified Certificates Profile was submitted friday 22.
>
>The new draft can be obtained from:
>http://www.accurata.se/QC/documents/draft-ietf-pkix-qc-02.txt
>
>The QC website has been udated accrodingly:
>http://www.accurata.se/QC/
>
>See also under settled topics to obtain information about major
>considerations since the last draft.
>
>/Stefan
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