February 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
14
The X.500 Directory Model
nThe model SSL/TLS uses, the X.509 certificate model, is based on names
nNames as principles
nSpecifically, X.509 is based on the X.500 directory model
nX.500 defined a global, all-encompassing directory, to be run by the telcos
nOne directory to rule them all, one directory to define them...
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