Re: KeyInfo Extensibility poll

> Allowing option (2) is the same mechanism at one structural level
> lower, isn't it? If there is information within a X509Data element
> which I do not understand, I simply ignore it. If the information
> is critical, then (1) must be used to derive a new x509 data type
> in a different namespace.

It is a similar mechanism one level lower, but isn't it cleaner for the
mechanism to exist at one level instead of two and in one data type instead
of five?  Option two opens the possibility of encountering an X509Data
element, or potentially worse a KeyValue element,  that contains only
material that you do not understand.

Carl Wallace
Corsec Security, Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 24 January 2001 07:57:44 UTC