Re: Question on set of certs and fingerprints

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 6 July 2015 at 11:00, Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> wrote:
> > What about other certificate attributes, such as common name, subject,
> > issuer, etc?
>
> Make a case for each.  Note that certificates in WebRTC are glorified
> public key container; none of those attributes are interesting in the
> default case.
>

I agree these are typically not interesting in the default WebRTC use case.
The reason I asked is that these fields are typically present in the
certificate API.

> Also, should application be able to limit the certificate lifetime?
>
> Funny you should ask.  I found that I needed a private API extension
> for testing expiration.  I can propose the necessary API if you are
> interested.
>

These API are normally only needed for testing purposes only. Once again, I
asked since access to these are common for certificate API as well.
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Roman Shpount

Received on Monday, 6 July 2015 21:34:15 UTC