X.509 Certificate

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.

Solutions

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