Certificate Revocation Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The proposal has the following features and goals. This proposal is heavily based on ideas from SDSI, SPKI, and PolicyMaker. Strings are allowed to contain arbitrary binary data, including null characters and 8-bit characters. No terminating null character is included in the string.
Negative numbers have one in the highest bit of the first byte.
Unnecessary leading zero or 0xff bytes are not allowed. The value zero has zero bytes of data. Time values are needed e.g. for expiration dates and timestamps. The value is represented as uint32. This format allows operation until year 2106.