IA5 String...

[Alex Deacon <alex@verisign.com>]

>    There was a lot of energy around S/MIME. People are implementing
> it. Internally, it's pretty kludgely, but it does provide pretty good
> cryptographic services. (as an aside, my favorite kludge anecdote is
> the fact that X.509 certificates use an IA5 character set rather than
> ASCII, so that the @ in email addresses has to be represented as (a)
> instead).

Wow, is this true?  I dont think so.  The CCITT document I have (CCITT
T.50) mentions that an @ sign (Commercial at) is a member of the IRV.
>From what I understand IA5 basically means US ASCII.  

Alex