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by cryptonector 1610 days ago
BTW, that I-D is now RFC 6025 [0].

There's also RFC 5912 [1], which adds x.681/x.682/x.683 constraints to PKIX modules. I use this to great effect in Heimdal[2]. One function call can decode everything in a certificate, and a second can pretty print it in JSON; one command can pretty-print a certificate in all its glory in JSON.

  [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6025
  [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5912
  [2] https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal
      https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/tree/master/lib/asn1