Technical Summary
This document describes and discusses the textual encodings of the
Public-Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX), Public-Key Cryptography
Standards (PKCS), and Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). The
textual encodings are well-known, are implemented by several
applications and libraries, and are widely deployed. This document
is intended to articulate the de-facto rules that existing
implementations operate by, and to give recommendations that will
promote interoperability.
Working Group Summary
As an individual submission
this document does not reflect a working group consensus The PKIX
group was already closed by the time the authors started work on this
document. The document did receive some review on the PKIX and SAAG
lists, including from implementers that said that it is aligned with
their implementations.
Document Quality
This document describes existing practice implemented by multiple
vendor products and open source projects, and harmonizes minor
discrepancies among implementations. No major issues were raised
in last call.
Personnel
Kathleen Moriarty is the responsible Area Directory.
Yoav Nir is the document shepherd.
RFC Editor Notes:
The draft editors will need to check the examples in the final version
(Auth48) as they may be invalid if there is indenting or other
characters in the way.
Additionally, the reference [X509SG] should be considered stable as it
has been there for 15 years. The draft editors asked the author and
the link is expected to be available indefinitely (his words were
'forever').