Jonah: experience implementing PKIX reference freeware

  • Authors:
  • Mary Ellen Zurko;John Wray;Ian Morrison;Mike Shanzer;Mike Crane;Pat Booth;Ellen McDermott;Warren Macek;Ann Graham;Jim Wade;Tom Sandlin

  • Affiliations:
  • Iris Associates, Westford, MA;Iris Associates, Westford, MA;IBM;Iris Associates, Westford, MA;IBM;Lotus;IBM;Iris Associates, Westford, MA;IBM;IBM;IBM

  • Venue:
  • SSYM'99 Proceedings of the 8th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 8
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

IBM made a business decision to promote an open, secure, interoperable and integrateable environment by embracing the IETF's Public Key Infrastructure (X.509) standards, developing a reference implementation of the core set, and giving it away as freeware. We discuss the architecture of this reference code, emphasizing lessons learned from implementing the standards in an integrated PKI system.