PKIX
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the body primarily responsible for creating, standardizing, and promoting the protocols/functions that make the Internet useful and interesting (examples include TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, Telnet, and HTTP). This work is carried out by a number of working groups; these are organized into various areas of common interest.
One of the working groups in the IETF Security Area is Public-Key Infrastructure, X.509, commonly referred to as PKIX. The PKIX Working Group was formed at the end of 1995 with the explicit intention of tailoring the certificate and CRL work done in the X.509 standard [X.509] to the Internet environment to specify an Internet PKI (IPKI).
As the vision of the working group was being ...
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