Title :
The X.509 certificate quality
Author :
Wazan, Ahmad Samer ; Laborde, Romain ; Barrère, François ; Benzekri, Abdelmalek
Author_Institution :
IRIT Lab., Toulouse
Abstract :
The growing number of PKIs (public key infrastructure) and the increasing number of situations where partners of a transaction may carry certificates signed by different CAs (certification authority) point out the problematic of trust between the different CAs. The degree to which a relying party can trust a CA depends upon the quality of its announced policy and its commitment to this policy. In this paper, we present an approach that helps a relying party to assess the quality of a certificate that is related to the quality of CA policy and its commitment to it. We integrate the role of relying party in the evaluation process.
Keywords :
certification; public key cryptography; CA policy; PKI; X.509 certificate quality; certification authority; public key infrastructure; Accreditation; Availability; Certification; Content addressable storage; Identity management systems; Performance evaluation; Protection; Public key; Robustness; Safety;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Information Management, 2008. ICDIM 2008. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2916-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2917-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICDIM.2008.4746813
