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1.6 KiB
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30 lines
1.6 KiB
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Assured member - a member of the CAcert community who has 50+ APs (COD13 Assurance Policy #2.3)
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(AP: Prospective Member with created account + Member)
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Unassured member - a member of the CAcert community who has <50 APs (COD13 Assurance Policy #2.3)
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(AP: Assured Member + Prospective Assurer + Assurer)
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Root CA certificate - the main certificate of a CA (Main Root)
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Subordinate CA certificate (Subroot, intermediate CA certificate)
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Issuer DN - Distinguished Name of the issuer authority
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Subject DN - Distinguished Name of the subject, for which the certificate is issued
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...
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and 1.3 from CPS COD6
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Certification Authority
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Registration Authority
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Subscriber
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Relying Party
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Member
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Arbitrator
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Vendor
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Non-Related Person
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abbrev.
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CA (Certification Authority)
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OCSP (On-line Certificate Status Protocol) - the protocol and server giving the quick informaton about revoked certificates based on their serial numbers
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CSR (Certificate Signing Request) - user's utilities, as OpenSSL, XCA, and others, generate pairs of keys; one key of each pair is claimed as the private key and saved on user's machine; the other key with some added information about the user is usually given the PEM (Base64 coded) format and serves as the requeat to issue a certificate
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WoT (Web of Trust) -
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CRL (Certificate Revoke List) - the list of revoked certificates
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AP (Assurance Points) - points a member can collect by means of assurance appointments
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RSA: Rivest–Shamir–Adleman cryptography, developed 1978
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ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography - gives greater cryptographic strength then RSA at equivalent key size, developed 1985
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DN Distinguished Name
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X.509v3
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