On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 03/12/2017 12:50 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
> > What about saying each certificate SHOULD be a signer on *A* preceding
> certificate?  This allows us to serve a single cert chain for both MD5  and
> SHA1, for example.  (Contrived examples of course.)
> I think the current language (copied from TLS 1.3) conveys that, though
> it's a bit subtle:
>
> > Each following certificate SHOULD directly certify one preceding it.
>

Note: this used to be a MUST-level requirement, but due to the complexities
of the deployed
PKI, in 1.3 it was relaxed to be a SHOULD.

-Ekr


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