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Re: Certificate

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Vasconcelos)
Fri Jun 28 08:49:00 1996

In-Reply-To: <9606271841.AA23092@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: Holger Reif <Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE>,
        risopoul@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Reply-To: vasco@bvl.pt
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Antonio Vasconcelos <vasco@bvl.pt>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 96 10:21:46 +0100 (WET)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

In reply to Holger Reif about Re: Certificate

> 
> Vassilis Risopoulos <risopoul@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> 
> > What type of certificates are used by SSL?
> > X.509 v1 or X.509 v2?
> > And what is with v3?
> 
> SSL version 2.0 uses roughly x509v1, SSL 3.0 will/ is using 
x509v3
I'm looking for information about certificate authentication and 
related tech. Could anyone point me an independent source of info 
? - I'm tired of reading Microsoft and Netscape press reviews and 
white papers that look just more than a bit yellow (ie biased).

Thanks in advance...

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