Accession Number:

ADA399894

Title:

X.509 Certificate Policy for the United States Department of Defense Version 5.2

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

2000-11-13

Pagination or Media Count:

55.0

Abstract:

The United States Department of Defense DOD is developing a Key Management Infrastructure KMI to provide engineered solutions consisting of products and services for security of networked computer-based systems. Part of this KMI is a Public-Key Infrastructure PKI, consisting of products and services which provide and manage X.509 certificates for publickey cryptography. Certificates identify the individual named in the certificate, and bind that person to a particular publicprivate key pair.

Descriptors:

• *POLICIES
• *COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
• *SECURE COMMUNICATIONS
• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
• MANAGEMENT
• CRYPTOGRAPHY
• INFRASTRUCTURE

Subject Categories:

• Computer Systems Management and Standards
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE