Quoting from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509):
The X.500 system has never been fully implemented, and the IETF's
Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509), or PKIX, working group has adapted
the standard to the more flexible organization of the Internet. In fact,
the term X.509 certificate usually refers to the IETF's PKIX Certificate
and CRL Profile of the X.509 v3 certificate standard, as specified in
RFC 5280, commonly referred to as PKIX for Public Key Infrastructure
(X.509).
I suggest to retain the existing X.509 terminology which is more common,
adding a clarification somewhere that we really refer to the PKIX profile.
Thanks,
Yaron
On 31.3.2010 2:59, Paul Hoffman wrote:
We use "X.509" when we probably mean "PKIX". That is, we only care about the
PKIX profile of X.509, not just the base X.509 spec. However, X.509 appears in some of the protocol
element names. Can we change it throughout to PKIX, or are we stuck with the old name?
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