Security Issues of the Digital Certificates within Public Key Infrastructures

The paper presents the basic byte level interpretation of an X.509 v3 digital certificate accordingto ASN.1 DER/BER encoding. The reasons for byte level analysis are various andimportant. For instance, a research paper has mentioned how a PKI security may be violatedby MD5 collision over information from the certificates. In order to develop further studies onthe topic a serious knowledge about certificate structure is necessary