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Clearance Attribute and Authority Clearance Constraints Certificate Extension

Author(s) -

S. Turner,

Santosh Chokhani

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.17487/rfc5913

Subject(s) - certificate , certificate authority , certification , subject (documents) , computer science , extension (predicate logic) , authorization certificate , key (lock) , root certificate , public key cryptography , computer security , world wide web , theoretical computer science , political science , programming language , law , encryption

This document defines the syntax and semantics for the Clearanceattribute and the Authority Clearance Constraints extension in X.509certificates. The Clearance attribute is used to indicate theclearance held by the subject. The Clearance attribute may appear inthe subject directory attributes extension of a public key certificateor in the attributes field of an attribute certificate. The AuthorityClearance Constraints certificate extension values in a Trust Anchor(TA), in Certification Authority (CA) public key certificates, and inan Attribute Authority (AA) public key certificate in a certificationpath for a given subject constrain the effective Clearance of thesubject. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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