RE: [Jsdsi-users] Re: Other features offered by JSDSI

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 Hello Somaya,

If u have any doubts about the LDAP certificate store u can talk to me.

Good luck.

=BB -----Original Message-----
=BB From: jsd...@li...=20
=BB [mailto:jsd...@li...] On Behalf Of=20
=BB Sameer Ajmani
=BB Sent: sexta-feira, 20 de Janeiro de 2006 14:01
=BB To: Somaya Aboulwafa
=BB Cc: jsdsi-users
=BB Subject: [Jsdsi-users] Re: Other features offered by JSDSI
=BB=20
=BB On 1/20/06, Somaya Aboulwafa <som...@ya...> wrote:
=BB > Hi Sameer,
=BB >
=BB > I understand now that with JSDSI I can do the
=BB > following:
=BB > 1. Creating and Signing Certificates
=BB > 2. Verifying Certificates signatures
=BB > 3. Building a certificates path from a group of certificates 4.=20
=BB > certificates paths validation
=BB >
=BB > I'd like to know what other features that jsdsi support.
=BB=20
=BB You have listed the main features, but in addition there's:
=BB - certificate and s-expression parsing and marshalling
=BB - an LDAP certificate storage system (I'm not familiar with=20
=BB this, though) and I'm sure there are others, but I'd have to=20
=BB go look at the APIs...
=BB=20
=BB >
=BB > Also I would be grateful if you give me an insight on how=20
=BB (in theory)=20
=BB > jsdsi makes certificate paths validation?
=BB=20
=BB A certificate path is essentially a series of certificates=20
=BB that, when taken together, imply another certificate (either=20
=BB a name cert or authorization cert); this implied cert is=20
=BB included with the path to aid in validation.  The basic=20
=BB operation of validation is certificate "composition" (the=20
=BB SPKI RFC describes the rules for composing certs).=20
=BB Validation works as follows: the certificates in the path are=20
=BB composed, one after the other, each time checking that the=20
=BB signatures are valid.  If the final resulting cert "implies"=20
=BB (grants the same or stronger authorization than) the desired=20
=BB cert, then the path is valid.
=BB=20
=BB S
=BB=20
=BB >
=BB > Thanks you
=BB > Somaya
=BB >
=BB >
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