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 according to ASN.1 DER/BER encoding. The reasons for byte level analysis are various and important. For instance, a research paper has mentioned how a PKI security may be violated by MD5 collision over informat...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Inforec Association 2009-01-01
Series:Informatică economică
Subjects:
PKI
Online Access:http://revistaie.ase.ro/content/49/002%20-%20Toma.pdf