Chapter 11. PKI Information Dissemination: Repositories and Other Techniques
As Chapter 6, "Certificates and Certification," discussed, certificates provide a convenient (and typically necessary) structure for protecting the integrity of public keys. Ultimately, certificates need to be acquired by others to be useful (for example, so one end-entity can encrypt for, or verify signatures of, another end-entity). In addition, Chapter 8, "Certificate Revocation," discussed the need to disseminate certificate revocation information, including the use of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) and/or CRL-based techniques.
The dissemination of certificate and certificate revocation information can occur in a number of ways. The purpose of this chapter ...
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