Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile

Cooper, D. (2008). Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile.

Type

Standard

Intellectual base

Reference work

Year

2008

Link

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280

Cited from

computer_science, law_governance

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Attestation
  • The trust anchor is the public key, itself vouched for by a certificate chain terminating in a root the verifier already trusts.

    This sourceDefines certificate chains terminating in a trusted root, the trust-anchor architecture for verifying a public-key binding.

• Authentication
  • 4. A trust anchor. The chain of evidence bottoms out at a root — a root certificate, identity authority, notary, recognised expert — whose compromise invalidates everything downstream.

    This sourceDefines the certificate chain that bottoms out at a trusted root — the trust anchor whose compromise invalidates everything downstream.

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