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I have a few simple questions about ASN.1 encoding for X.509 certificates. Can you help?
1) The KeyUsage extension includes a BIT STRING. Is this encoded so that the most significant bit in the DER encoded value is bit 0 (digitalSignature)? After looking at a few certificates, that seems to be true but I want to verify.
2) RFC 5754 says that when the algorithm OID in an AlgorithmIdentifier structure is sha256WithRSAEncryption, the parameters MUST be NULL. Would that NULL value encode to an additional 05 00 at the end of the SEQUENCE? Again, I observe this to be true but I want to verify it.
Please keep Ken Goldman on the cc list for responses, if possible.
Thanks,
Steve
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