On Wed, Jun 07, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Neither 3.3.3.33 or 5.5.5.5.55 are valid OIDs, since
> the first component of an OID is always 0, 1, or 2. 
> This restriction is built-in to BER/DER encoding.
> 

and if you try to generate such a thing with OpenSSL it should reject the
attempt...

Steve.
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