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Re: going back to stone axes

To: spki@c2.org
Subject: Re: going back to stone axes
From: cme@cybercash.com (Carl Ellison)
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:30:21 -0500
Cc: dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil
Sender: owner-spki@c2.org

At 13:15 2/29/96, Carl Ellison wrote:
>X.509 cert with the security clearance.  It should also be noted that the
>clearance field was encoded in non-ASN.1, by the NSA folks who defined
>that format.

I no longer have the Fortezza specs in front of me.  That field, outside
the X.509 certificate definition, might actually use ASN.1 inside what
is described as an unstructured byte string.  I don't remember.  I used
it as a fixed binary block with the field of interest in a known place
-- ye olde picture method of description.

 - Carl

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