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Configuring Certificate Management
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Table 13-1. Character String Types
Character String
Type
Allowed Characters
DirectoryString All 8 bit characters without encoding
All non–8 bit characters with UTF–8 encoding
PrintableString A–Z, a–z, 0–9, ()+-./:=?, comma (‘,’), space (‘ ‘), apostrophe (‘’’)
IA5String All 7 bit characters
When representing attribute values, be careful when using special
characters. The following characters have special meaning in the
string syntax and must be escaped with a backslash character (‘\’):
comma (‘,’)
equal sign (‘=’)
plus sign (‘+’)
less than sign (‘’)
pound sign (‘#’)
semicolon (‘;’)
backslash (‘\’)
quotation (‘”’).
All other printable ASCII characters represent themselves. Non–
printable ASCII must be escaped by preceding the ordinal value of the
character in two-digit hexadecimal with a backslash (for example. the
BEL character, which has an ordinal value of seven, would be
represented by \07). Here are some examples of the escape
conventions:
CN=Jane Smith\,DDS, OU=Sales, O=Secure Computing
CN=\4a\61\6e\65\20Smith, OU=Sales, O=Secure Computing
Attribute values may optionally be contained within double-quote
characters, in which case only the backslash (‘\’), double quote (‘”’),
and non–printable ASCII characters need to be escaped. Here the
double-quotes eliminate the need to escape the CN’s comma:
CN=”Jane Smith,DDS”, OU=Sales, O=Secure Computing
Note: Entries containing backslashes or double–quotes will appear “normalized”
(without extra characters or spaces) in the GUI once they are saved.