On 11/30/2007 5:54 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > Gervase Markham wrote: >> Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: >> >>> I think what Jean-Marc (and me previously) meant, is not related to the >>> domain name or email address but about the other details in the subject >>> line. Obviously the CN (or emailAddress) field is to be verified >>> accordingly... >>> >> Oh, I see. Yes, it's definitely worth them doing something like that. >> But I don't know if we can require it, because then we need specs for >> what to require. >> >> > Pure ASCII / Latin characters would do...do we need a spec for that? >
Remember, ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Unless the X.509 specifications require it, we should avoid ethnocenterism. If a root certificate is used to issue site certificates that will generally be used for Turkish language Web sites, I don't understand why the contents of the root certificate can't also be in Turkish. The few who actually look inside a certificate should, in this case, be literate in Turkish but might not be literate in English or any other language that is expressed solely in ASCII characters. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
