XML Encoding of SPKI Certificates
draft-paajarvi-xml-spki-cert-00
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Author | Juha Paajarvi | ||
Last updated | 2000-03-08 | ||
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Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
This draft suggests a standard form for encoding SPKI certificates in XML as opposed to the original s-expression encoding defined in [SPKI]. The standard form is defined as an XML document type definition (DTD). The main emphasis is on the XML-encoding of an authorization certificate that is the basic SPKI certificate form. This draft provides also a brief introduction to XML and a short discussion about the benefits of choosing XML as the certificate encoding format. In addition, this draft discusses the problems of automatic processing of tags (attributes and authorizations transferred by a certificate are called tags in SPKI) when reducing certificates. An example of encoding Java permissions in an SPKI certificate is given to demonstrate the problem and, finally, a solution to this problem is suggested.
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