Re: Why is the crlNumber an OCTET STRING?
Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
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Russ Housley <[email protected]> writes: >I see nothing about an OCTET STRING ... If it's 20 bytes it's an OCTET STRING dressed up as an INTEGER, not a real INTEGER. In particular, if it's something where you'd need to issue 18 quintillion, 446 quadrillion, 744 trillion, 73 billion, 709 million, 551 thousand and 615 CRLs to exceed the capacity of an actual integer value (assuming 64-bit) then there's something else going on, which is what I was trying to find out. It's not a "monotonically increasing sequence number" any more because it's not possible to issue that many CRLs, so what is it? Peter.