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List:       ms-cryptoapi
Subject:    Re: IE CA X.509v3
From:       Holger Reif <Holger.Reif () PRAKINF ! TU-ILMENAU ! DE>
Date:       1997-06-27 13:17:06
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Ioan Saftoiu <isaftoiu@LEVEL8.com> wrote:
>
> Randall Brooks wrote:
> >
> >  I have also been trying to get a personal
> >  certificate that was issued by either one of
> >  in house Netscape CAs or Entrust CA.
> >  When I load it in, I get and "I" as the name listed
> >  as the site.
> >  No cerificate can viewed.
> >  I does this for all now Verisign Certs and I does this
> >  in IE 3.02 and 4.0 beta.
> >  Can IE really add a certificate that is not Verisign or a
> >  Microsoft one?
> >
> >  Randall
> >  --
> > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> > \/ Randall Brooks                   \/
> > /\ rbrooks@mitre.org                /\
> > \/ The Mitre Corporation            \/
> > /\ phone: (703)-883-6606            /\
> > \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
> >
> Yes, if your public key is 512 bits, and if the Fermat number used as
> exponent fits in 32 bits (i.e. you can use at most F4 = 0x10001). The
> same restrictions apply to the issuer's public key. Good Luck!

This is a bit strange. I issued certs for MSIE with a 1024 modulus
and F4 = 0x10001 for the public exponent...

Perhaps you mixed the definitions for "piub key length" and "pub exp
length" a bit?

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