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Re: [TLS] Re: Russ Housley: Fwd: problems with draft-ietf-tls-openpgp-keys-10.txt

"Anyang Ren" <anyang.ren@gmail.com> Wed, 28 June 2006 15:15 UTC

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From: Anyang Ren <anyang.ren@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Re: Russ Housley: Fwd: problems with draft-ietf-tls-openpgp-keys-10.txt
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On 6/26/06, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> wrote:
>
> My understanding from reading the overview rfc3280:
>
>    "Following is a simplified view of the architectural model assumed by
>    the PKIX specifications.
>
>    The components in this model are:
>
>    end entity: user of PKI certificates and/or end user system that is
>                the subject of a certificate;
>    CA:         certification authority;
>    ..."
>
> and by the fact that only one issuer per certificate is allowed, makes
> clear to me there is a hierarchy of certification. Is there an example
> of a non-hierarchic PKIX deployment?

Although only one issuer per certificate is allowed, an end entity can
get multiple certificates from different CAs.

CAs can also issue certificates to each other (cross-certification).

-- 
Anyang Ren
Open source developer

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