X9.55-1997
Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry: Extensions to Public Key Certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists

Standard No.
X9.55-1997
Release Date
1997
Published By
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
Scope
Specifies extensions to the definitions of public-key certificates and certificate revocation lists in Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry: Certificate Management@ BSR X9.57. These extensions are in the following areas: the keys involved@ including key identifiers for subject and issuer keys@ indicators of intended or restricted key usage@ and indicators of certificate policy; name forms for a certificate subject@ a certificate issuer@ or a CRL issuer@ and additional attribute information about a certificate subject; included in CA-certificates@ i.e.@ certificates for CAs issued by other CAs@ to facilitate the automated processing of certification paths when multiple certificate policies are involved@ e.g.@ when policies vary for different applications in an environment or when interoperation with external environments occurs; and time at which the condition causing the revocation occurred; revocation information from one CA to be partitioned into separate CRLs to facilitate control of CRL sizes@ and CRL extensions to support the use of partial CRLs indicating only changes since an earlier CRL issue.



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