RFC 5708 · INFORMATIONAL · 2010

X.509 Key and Signature Encoding for the KeyNote Trust Management System

Overview

RFC 5708, “X.509 Key and Signature Encoding for the KeyNote Trust Management System”, is an Informational document published in January 2010 by A. Keromytis. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This memo describes X.509 key identifiers and signature encoding for version 2 of the KeyNote trust-management system (RFC 2704). X.509 certificates (RFC 5280) can be directly used in the Authorizer or Licensees field (or in both fields) in a KeyNote assertion, allowing for easy integration with protocols that already use X.509 certificates for authentication.

In addition, the document defines additional signature types that use other hash functions (beyond the MD5 and SHA1 hash functions that are defined in RFC 2792). This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

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