RFC 2693: SPKI Certificate Theory

This document gives the theory behind SPKI certificates and ACLs without going into technical detail about those structures or their uses. This memo defines…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
Informative reference — RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Informative reference — RFC 2065: Domain Name System Security Extensions
Informative reference — RFC 1114: Privacy enhancement for Internet electronic mail: Part II - certificate-based key management

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 6253: Host Identity Protocol Certificates
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4046: Multicast Security (MSEC) Group Key Management Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4398: Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9804: Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) S-Expressions