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 information from the certificates. In order to develop further studies on the topic a serious knowledge about certificate structure is necessary.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	TOMA, Cristian
Published in:	Informatica Economica. - Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti, ISSN 1453-1305. - Vol. 13.2009, 1, p. 16-28
Publisher:	Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti
Subject:	digital certificates \| certificates authority \| ASN.1 DER/BER \| PKI

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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