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RFC 5035, "Enhanced Security Services (ESS) Update: Adding CertID Algorithm Agility", August 2007

Source of RFC: smime (sec)

Errata ID: 1480
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Kurt Zeilenga
Date Reported: 2008-07-30
Rejected by: Sean Turner
Date Rejected: 2010-04-20

Section Appendix A says: 

SecurityCategory ::= SEQUENCE {
  type  [0] OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
  value [1] ANY DEFINED BY type
}

It should say:

SecurityCategory ::= SEQUENCE {
  type  [0] OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
  value [1] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type
}

Notes:

The RFC incorporates a bad ASN.1 construction from X.411. This construction was corrected in X.501 documents (see 2005). The tag on the value must be EXPLICIT otherwise it will be replaced by whatever tag the type used in the ANY calls for.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
An implicit tagged followed by an open type is converted to an explicit tag followed by an open type by the compiler.

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