The existence of several proposals for public key infraestructures raise the need for studies on interoperability. Interest of the group for this topic has resulted in the activities developed in DEDICA project, devoted to facilitate interoperability between X.509 and UN/EDIFACT public key infrastructures. Among other the following items are of interest:
Certificates. Semantical and syntactical studies have been carried out in X.509 and UN/EDIFACT certificates in order to determine the contained information in each one. Rules to produce a certificate of one type from a certificate of the other type with similar semantic information have been produced.
Certificates revocation management in X.509 and UN/EDIFACT world.
Security policies specification.
Our most important contributions are:
Fritz Bauspieß, Juan C. Cruellas, and Montse Rubia. Directory based EDI Certificate Access and Management. In Digitale Signaturen , Darmstadt (Germany), September 1996.
Montse Rubia, Juan C. Cruellas, Manel Medina, and Isabel Gallego. Naming conversion rules specification, 1996. Deliverable of DEDICA project.
Montse Rubia, Juan C. Cruellas, Manel Medina, and Isabel Gallego. Final Specifications of Certificates Conversion Rules, 1996. Deliverable of DEDICA project.
