Having much the same results on my googling -- there is some mention of a PKIPath extension, but I did see a reference to an X509_4thEditionDraftV7.pdf which contains dates roughly simlar to the ones Richard quotes. There was a reference to RFC3281 which talks about attribute certificates, but the version code in those is 0 (version one). If v4 really means anything in itself, it would imply a version code in the certificate of 3...
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:42:00 +0100 (CET), Martin Kouril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Kouril.Martin> Does somebody know how x509v4 certs differ from x509v3 Kouril.Martin> certs?
Until just now, I didn't know there was a v4 format. I'm not sure there is, either. All I can find when I search for X.509 v4, are discussions on some mailing lists back in '96 and '01. The '96 discussions indicate that the only difference would be in the notBefore and notAfter fields, to become generalizedTime instead of a CHOICE of different time formats.
Cheers, Richard
----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details.
-- "An Internet-connected Windows machine is tantamount to a toddler carrying a baggie of $100 bills down a city street..."
Charles B (Ben) Cranston mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben
______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
