Security Issues of the Digital Certificates within Public Key Infrastructures

Cristian Toma ()

Informatica Economica, 2009, vol. 13, issue 1, 16-28

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: digital certificates; certificates authority; ASN.1 DER/BER; PKI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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