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From: Dr. Lobel
Subject: Certificate format
Date: 5 Cheshvan 5782
Simpler is not better. X.509 handles edge cases we have not yet considered. The extension mechanism allows future growth. The tooling exists.
If we invent our own format, we inherit maintenance burden. Every parser, every validator, every debugger must be written from scratch.
—Dr. Yehuda Lobel
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