\20 in distinguished names

• From: Tom Oehser <tom@Toms.NET>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:56:45 -0400 (EDT)
• To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210071351210.16467-100000@conn6m.toms.net>

The RFCs specify that leading or trailing spaces in Distinguished names are
escaped with \20, and the 00-1F are always escaped, but is it invalid if an
escaped space appears in the middle of the string?

That is:

" o=My Org "

is supposed to become:

"\20o=My Org\20"

but should:

"\20o=My\20Org\20"

therefore be required or allowed or rejected?

-Thanks

-Tom

Received on Monday, 7 October 2002 13:57:36 UTC