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From: "David Chadwick" d.w.chadwick@kent.ac.uk
To: x500standard@freelists.org
Sent: Monday, 3 November, 2008 3:56:46 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [x500standard] Password attribute
Hi All
In the new version of X.500 that we are working on, we are creating
password policies, grace periods, password expiration times and the like.
Currently the password attribute in X.509 is defined semantically to be
SINGLE valued, but syntactically to be multi-valued.
We are considering changing the syntax to agree with the semantic
definition, since this will significantly simplify the password
management text.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE PASSWORD ATTRIBUTE BECOMING
SINGLE VALUED, and if so could they say why
thanks
David
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