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Subject: Re: [xacml] Change to x500Name-equal function




From: Polar Humenn <polar@syr.edu>
To: Anne Anderson <Anne.Anderson@Sun.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:54:44 -0400 (EDT)







I am willing to accept Anne's change. I hope we don't have to vote on
this.

Cheers,
-Polar

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Anne Anderson wrote:

> I learned a lot from working on x500Name-match, and would like to
> update x500Name-equal to be consistent as follows:
>
> This function takes two arguments of "xacml:x500Name" and returns
> "xs:boolean".  It returns true if and only if each Relative
> Distinguished Name (RDN) in the two arguments matches.  Two RDNs
> match if an only if the result of the following operations is true:
>
>   First, normalize the two RDNs according to IETF RFC 2253
>   "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8
>   String Representation of Distinguished Names Names".
>
>   Second, if any RDN contains multiple attributeTypeAndValue
>   pairs, re-order the attributeTypeAndValue pairs in that RDN in
>   ascending order when compared as octet strings (described in
>   ITU-T Rec. X.690 (1997 E) Section 11.6, "Set-of components").
>
>   Finally, compare the RDNs using the rules in IETF RFC 3280
>   "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and
>   Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", Section 4.2.1.4
>   "Issuer".
>
> Anne
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[xacml] Change to x500Name-equal function
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