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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipsec-pki-req-03.txt



Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
> At 04:35 PM 10/25/99 -0700, Brian Korver wrote:
> >Why require that extendedKeyUsage be mandatory at all?
> 
> To identify the cert as being for IKE. I've been told that today's IKE
> systems use this OID as identification. I believe we should have *one* OID
> for all IKE implementations, and not try to slice and dice between "client"
> and "gateway" and so on.
> 
> Are there any IPsec implementations using the IPsec OIDs specified in RFC
> 2459? Are there any implementations that require the use of other OIDs,
> like IKEend (1.3.6.1.5.5.8.2.1)?
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium

Paul,

Why is there a requirement to identify certificates as "for use with IKE"?

BTW, I haven't heard of any implementations that require these IKE OIDs in
ExtendedKeyUsage.  Perhaps someone else has.

brian
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briank@network-alchemy.com  (work)


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