[2269] in WWW Security List Archive
Naive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vassilis Risopoulos)
Wed Jun 26 13:16:56 1996
From: Vassilis Risopoulos <risopoul@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:54:06 +0200 (MET DST)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
This is going to sound naive I know and it probably is, but I need to get it clear.
A "signed" certificate is encrypted right?
I mean all the X.509 stuff that are in the certificate just get encrypted by the CA
and then the client has to have the public key of the CA to get them?
Or, everything is in the clear and the signature that comes in the end is a kind of CRC
to check the whole thing?
Need help. Spend to much time infront of monitor.:)
Vassilis.-
