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This draft is a work item of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group of
the IETF.
Title : Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Data
Validation and Certification Server Protocols
Author(s) : C. Adams, P. Sylvester, M. Zolotarev, R. Zuccherato
Filename : draft-ietf-pkix-dcs-03.txt
Pages : 26
Date : 15-Oct-99
This document describes a general data validation and certification
service and the protocols to be used when communicating with it. The
Data Validation and Certification Server is a Trusted Third Party
(TTP) that can be used as one component in building reliable non-
repudiation services (see [ISONR]).
Useful Data Validation and Certification Server responsibilities in a
PKI are to validate signed documents and to assert the validity of
public key certificates at a given time.
We give examples of how to use the Data Certification Server to
extend the lifetime of a signature beyond key expiry or revocation
and to query the Data Certification Server regarding the status of a
public key certificate.
<draft>Note: The initial drafts of this protocol used the
abbreviation DCS instead of DVCS.</draft>
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