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Re: one more please...:)



On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:33:12PM -0500, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:17:03PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> > There's nothing about the commonName having an "identity" as far as I
> > can tell; it's a nickname.  Nicknames are described in dir-spec.txt;
> > their binding is described in in 6.1.
>
> From spec section 2...
>
> ....the commonName of the second
>    certificate is the OR's nickname, followed by a space and the string
>    "<identity>".
>
> What is "<identity>" ?

OK.  I think I see what you mean....you meant the *literal* string
"<identity>" right?

Chris