February 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
77
Parent certs
nWhat’s a valid parent certificate?
nIn the raw X.509 model, parent-child relationships are determined solely by matching Issuer DN in the child to Subject DN in the parent
nRecall that there’s an assumption that you have a big directory handy to find certs.
nIf you don’t have a directory handy, you need to do the matching yourself
nThis is not as easy as you might think…