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Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, March 8, 2004 9:10:56 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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-X509 is a standard for defining a DigitalCertificate. It is the signing system used for [SSL].
+X509 is a standard for defining a DigitalCertificate. It is the signing system used for [SSL]. The [X509] PublicKey security model is almost completely incompatible with the OpenPGP PublicKey security model, but they serve very different purposes. [X509] is heirarchical and commerce-oriented, whereas [PGP]/[GPG] is massively distributed, very fault tolerant and works using a WebOfTrust
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Some useful documentation on X509 certificates: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/security/cert3.html.
Some information about how to implement X509
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* E-Commerce protocols, such as SET.
* MicrosoftWindows
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