Subject: SubjectAltName & email address

From: "Alberti Antoine" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:38:26 +0100

I still have a theorical problem about the email address in the certificate: S/MIME is not reserved to email messages. In particular, it is already used in AS.2 (HTTP) from ediint working group. And as an extension, it may be used in anything based on MIME. It seems that the current version of the "S/MIME Version 3.1 Certificate Handling" draft allows the use of S/MIME without email addresses. But is it really so extreme to use S/MIME in other MIME based protocols than SMTP and POP3 that it deserves no comment at all (the question is open, it is not ironic at all) ?
By the way, has anyone been in contact with the ediint working group when they created their AS.2 and AS.3 (FTP) drafts?
Regards.

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