RE: length of octetstring

["Steven Legg" <steven.legg@adacel.com.au>]

Kathy,

Kathy Dally wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> In the syntaxes draft (2252bis), a definition is needed for
> "octetstring".  My proposal is below.  The question is whether
> octetstring can be empty (that is, *OCTET)?

In all the cases where the Octet String syntax is used in RFC 2256,
the corresponding X.500 definition allows zero-length OCTET STRINGs,
so *OCTET is appropriate.

Regards,
Steven

> 
>    The definition of OCTET, from [RFC 2234], is:
> 
>       OCTET          =  %x00-FF
>                         ; 8 bits of data
> 
>       octetstring = 1*OCTET
> 
> Thanks,
> Kathy Dally
> 
>