The X.509 trust model needs a technical and legal expert

Author

Wazan, A.S. ; Laborde, R. ; Barrère, F. ; Benzekri, A.

Author_Institution

IRIT Institue, Paul Sabatier Univ., Toulouse, France

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

6895

Lastpage

6900

Abstract

The X.509 trust model is based on three entities: the certification authority (CA), the certificate holder and the relying party (RP). The CA plays the role of a trusted third party between the certificate holder and the RP. It guarantees to the RP the correctness of the certificate information. This trust model is based on hypothesis that RPs have a predefined trust relation with a CA and that the trust level in CA can be determined by reading and analyzing a set of technical and legal documents. The X.509 trust model is so complex to RPs because an RP must realize this task for each and every CA chosen by the certificate holders. We introduce a new role of technical and legal expert into the X.509 trust model to help the RP make this task.

Keywords

certification; expert systems; public key cryptography; trusted computing; X.509 trust model; certificate holder; certificate information; certification authority; legal expert; predefined trust relation; public key infrastructure; relying party; technical expert; trusted third party; Certification; Law; Organizations; Standards organizations; PKI; X.509 certificate; X.509 trust model; certification authority;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6364860

Filename

6364860