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Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: non-ASCII ASN.1 string types
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Joe Orton |
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Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: non-ASCII ASN.1 string types |
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Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:45 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:49:27PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Joe Orton <address@hidden> writes:
> > Well I guess the interface is simply not flexible enough for this to be
> > decided by the app, where ultimately it should be. I have no need for
> > 2253-style formatting in neon, I'd prefer to be able to skip RDNs which
> > I can't produce human-readable strings from than show random hex strings
> > to the user.
>
> That is a worthy goal, and if you want to work on adding some
> interface in GnuTLS, similar to the OpenSSL X509_NAME, to achieve it,
> I think it could be incorporated.
I doubt I will have time to work on this, sorry.
> For what it's worth, I agree with Nikos that adding UCS2->UTF8
> conversion is to enter a problematic road. For non-ASCII handling, I
> believe that GnuTLS should use some external library, that is focused
> on that problem. There are so many pitfalls in charset handling that
> I wouldn't want the GnuTLS code to have to deal with them too. TLS is
> complex enough as it is. GNU Libidn can do charset conversion, but
> there may be other candidates.
>
> I'm sorry I don't have free time to help with the OID code you posted.
> If you debug it further, and submit your code as a new self test
> (possibly together with a patch to fix any bugs), I will try to work
> on integrating it.
It's OK, Nikos fixed that in CVS already.
joe
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, (continued)
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2004/10/08
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2004/10/12
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Joe Orton, 2004/10/12
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2004/10/13
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Joe Orton, 2004/10/17
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2004/10/17
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Joe Orton, 2004/10/17
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2004/10/17
- Re: [gnutls-dev] non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Joe Orton, 2004/10/17
- [gnutls-dev] Re: non-ASCII ASN.1 string types, Simon Josefsson, 2004/10/24
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: non-ASCII ASN.1 string types,
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