[2294] in WWW Security List Archive

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Certificate

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Richard)
Mon Jul 1 05:47:39 1996

Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 01:00:38 -0700 ()
From: Pat Richard <patr@x509.com>
To: Antonio Vasconcelos <vasco@bvl.pt>
cc: Holger Reif <Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE>,
        risopoul@informatik.uni-hamburg.de, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <MAPI.Id.0016.006173636f2020204133303730303039@MAPI.to.RFC822>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Antonio Vasconcelos wrote:

try http://x.509.com/nf/bg/related-sites.html


> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 96 10:21:46 +0100 (WET)
> From: Antonio Vasconcelos <vasco@bvl.pt>
> To: Holger Reif <Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE>,
>     risopoul@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
> Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Certificate
> 
> 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...
> 
> --
> |Antonio Vasconcelos @ The Lisbon $tock Exchange            |
> |-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --|
> |vasco@bvl.pt, postmaster@bvl.pt, webmaster@bvl.pt          |
> |http://www.bvl.pt:8080/~vasco   [vasco@individual.eunet.pt]|
> |-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --|
> |TEL: +351-1-790-9904             Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa|
> |FAX: +351-1-795-2026             R. Soeiro Pereira Gomes   |
> |http://www.bvl.pt/               1600 LISBOA, PORTUGAL     |
> |-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --|
> |  All opinions are my own, my employer thinks I'm working  |
>  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
> 
> 

--
Pat Richard    /    patr@x509.com
----
The first and only CA server on the Internet: http://x.509.com
                                              http://www.xcert.com


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post