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In January of 1999, after four years of discussion and debate, the Public-Key Infrastructure (PKIX) working group of the IETF finally published its Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile (a.k.a. “PKIX Part 1”) [RFC 2459] as a Proposed Standard. Lack of a formal standard, however, did not deter individual software vendors from deploying products embodying their own interpretations of what would be in compliance with the end result of the working group. This market urgency has created a situation in which major “PKIX” software products “basically interoperate,” in that they agree on the message formats, but they do not necessarily “fully interoperate.” In the best case, they ignore anything their processing engines do not understand; in the worst case they simply fail.
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Fox, B., LaMacchia, B. (2001). Panel: Public Key Infrastructure: PKIX, Signed XML or Something Else?. In: Frankel, Y. (eds) Financial Cryptography. FC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1962. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45472-1_22
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