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@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ that may share the same brand name. Corda reuses the standard PKIX infrastructur
identities and thus names are actually X.500 names. When a single string is sufficient the \emph{common name} field can
be used alone, similar to the web PKI. In more complex deployments the additional structure X.500 provides may be useful
to differentiate between entities with the same name. For example there are at least five different companies called
\emph{American Savings Bank} and in the past there may have been more than 40 independent banks with that name.
\emph{American Bank} and in the past there may have been more than 40 independent banks with that name.
More complex notions of identity that may attest to many time-varying attributes are not handled at this layer of the
system: the base identity is always just an X.500 name. Note that even though messaging is always identified, transactions