Application Cert Interop Project David Crowe PKI Forum, Jun 2001, Munich, Germany
Project Purpose To establish interoperability of application certificates Achieved through application interop testing Also through building of a library of certificates
Testing Test scripts are provided to guide testing Results are published as datasheets describing application interoperability between pairs of vendors
Test Scripts SSL S/MIME Cert path construction & validation
Results Datasheet Format Product descriptions Functionality that interoperates Configuration notes
Results Submission (see draft document in proceedings) For existing scripts Proposing of new script
Submission for Existing Scripts Results datasheet writing Review by companies Review by TWG Review by PKI Forum board Publication
Proposal of New Script Script topic proposal Script writing Review by TWG Review by PKI Forum board Publication
Certificate Library Each certificate to contain –Certificate itself –Text file description: purpose, good or bad –CRL (optional) –Chain of CAs (optional) To be retrievable from PKI Forum web site Some certificates received from Microsoft & Computer Associates Being coordinated by Tony Rogers