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RFC 6187
Title: X.509v3 Certificates for Secure Shell
Authentication
Author: K. Igoe, D. Stebila
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2011
Mailbox: kmigoe at nsa.gov,
douglas at stebila.ca
Pages: 16
Characters: 35208
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-igoe-secsh-x509v3-07.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6187.txt
X.509 public key certificates use a signature by a trusted
certification authority to bind a given public key to a given digital
identity. This document specifies how to use X.509 version 3 public
key certificates in public key algorithms in the Secure Shell
protocol. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet
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