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From: Dr. Lobel
Subject: Certificate format
Date: 4 Cheshvan 5782
X.509.
The industry standard for digital certificates. Used by TLS, code signing, S/MIME. Decades of tooling. Libraries in every language. A proven infrastructure.
X.509 provides: - Distinguished names for subject and issuer - Validity periods - Key usage constraints - Extension mechanism for custom fields - Chain validation
We should not reinvent what already exists.
—Dr. Yehuda Lobel
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