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*Up until the 1970's the Postal and Telecommunications Agencies of the world governments just knew that they were responsible for assigning names and numbers to everything on the planet.
  
 
==Problems==
 
==Problems==

Revision as of 09:13, 28 July 2018

Full Name or Meme

A structure defined by the CCITT (now ITU) that binds a Subject name to a public key and a set of Attributes.

Context

  • Up until the 1970's the Postal and Telecommunications Agencies of the world governments just knew that they were responsible for assigning names and numbers to everything on the planet.

Problems

Solutions

  • The content of a Web Site certification is reasonably well defined[1]

References

  1. DigiCert. What extensions and details are included in a SSL certificate? https://knowledge.digicert.com/solution/SO18140.html