<p dir="ltr">On Aug 19, 2016 9:54 PM, "Peter Bowen" <<a href="mailto:pzb@amzn.com">pzb@amzn.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> If you only need to support “current” versions of OpenSSL, you just need to include an empty sequence in the Basic Response to get OpenSSL to not fail. It is only four bytes extra compared to skipping the attribute. In my book, it is worth the 4 bytes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ah! Apologies, I'd missed that aspect of your original message.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Given that failures are a positive forcing function to upgrades, but that magic incantations and lore (such as this) live forever because of the fear of the unknown-unknown, my hope is that CAs would change nothing, OpenSSL would adopt sane behaviours, and people who encounter breakage would upgrade.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Then again, I may be being overly optimistic.</p>