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Newer page: version 8 Last edited on Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:40:06 pm by JuanGarcia
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 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. 
  
-Some useful documentation on X509 certificates: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk /1.2/docs/guide/security/cert3.html.  
+Some useful documentation on X509 certificates: http://java.sun.com/j2se /1.4 .2/docs/guide/security/cert3.html 
  
 Some information about how to implement [X509]: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt This is also just an interesting read to find out why X509 is such a bizarre standard 
  
 Things that use X509 certificates: