Ulrich Windl wrote: >>>> Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> schrieb am 27.11.2013 um 17:35 in Nachricht > <52961F54.2080603@symas.com>: >> Ulrich Windl wrote: >>>>>> Dieter KlÃnter<dieter@dkluenter.de> schrieb am 27.11.2013 um 11:15 in >>>> In fact spaces in a commonName attribute value are in accordance with >>>> X.520 practice. >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I believe that, but when printed two spaces look very similar to one > space, >>> and as I guess every space is significant, you can probably have "Joe >> OneSpace" >>> and "Joe TwoSpaces" as RDN. >> >> Read RFC4518, don't guess. > > You mean? > > "For instance, the caseIgnoreMatch matching rule may be used to > compare whether the commonName attribute contains a particular value > without regard for case and insignificant spaces." > > "The caseIgnoreMatch matching rule [X.520], for example, is simply > defined as being a case-insensitive comparison where insignificant > spaces are ignored." > > What's an "insignificant space, BTW."? AFAIK leading or trailing spaces are insignificant when matching. Ciao, Michael.
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