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Section 6 – THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CERTIFYING AUTHORITIES) RULES,2000

6. Standards.-

The Information Technology (IT) architecture for Certifying Authorities may support open standards and accepted de facto standards; the most important standards that may be considered for different activities associated with the Certifying Authority’s functions are as under:

The product

The standard

Public Key Infrastructure

PKIX

Digital Signature Certificates

and Digital Signature revocation list

X.509. version 3 certificates as specified in ITU RFC 1422

Directory (DAP and LDAP)

X500 for publication of certificates and Certification Revocation Lists (CRLs)

Database Management Operations

Use of generic SQL

Public Key algorithm

DSA and RSA

Digital Hash Function

MD5 and SHA-1

RSA Public Key Technology

PKCS#1 RSA Encryption Standard (512, 1024, 2048 bit)

PKCS#5 Password Based Encryption Standard

PKCS#7 Cryptographic Message Syntax standard

PKCS#8 Private Key Information Syntax standard

PKCS#9 Selected Attribute Types

PKCS#10 RSA Certification Request

PKCS#12 Portable format for storing/transporting a user’s private keys and certificates

Distinguished name

X.520

Digital Encryption and Digital Signature

PKCS#7

Digital Signature Request Format

PKCS#10

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