On 01/04/2012 03:51 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
> Ryan Sleevi wrote:
>> IIRC, libpkix is an RFC 3280 and RFC 4158 conforming implementation,
>> while non-libpkix is not. That isn't to say the primitives don't exist -
>> they do, and libpkix uses them - but that the non-libpkix path doesn't use
>> them presently, and some may be non-trivial work to implement.
> It would be helpful to get some links to some real-world servers that would 
> require Firefox to do complex path building.
Mostly in the government. They higher 3rd parties to replace our current
path processing because it is non-conformant. In the real world, FF is
basically holding the web back because we are the only major browser
that is not RFC compliant! We should have had full pkix processing 5
years ago!


bob


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