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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Thursday, April 1, 2004 2:43:02 am | 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.
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+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:
-* Various code-signing schemes, such as signed Java ARchives, and Microsoft Authenticode.
-* Various secure E-Mail standards, such as PEM and S/MIME.
+* Various code-signing schemes, such as signed Java ARchives, and Microsoft Authenticode (because these things are built upon [SSL])
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+* Various secure E-Mail standards, such as PEM and S/MIME (S/MIME can also use [OpenPGP])
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* E-Commerce protocols, such as SET.
* MicrosoftWindows
AddToMe...
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