An Approach to the Formalisation of a Certification Policy
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- Omar Batarfi
- Dr Charles Snow
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| Author(s) | | Batarfi O, Snow C R |
| Publication type | | Report |
| Series Title | | School of Computing Science Technical Report Series |
| Year | | 2005 |
| Date | | July 2005 |
| Report Number | | 918 |
| Pages | | 12 |
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| In this paper, we present an initial approach to the problem of specifying formally the requirements of the Certification Policy as published by a Certification Authority. The approach uses the XML language to describe the structure of the policy document, and attempts to provide a canonical representation of the document in order to allow the semantics of the policy to be described. The ultimate aim is to permit policies to be compared, thus allowing a degree of trust to be inferred between entities holding certificates issued by otherwise unconnected Certification Authorities. |
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| Institution | | School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Place Published | | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| URL | | http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/918.pdf |
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