RE: DPD & DPV Basics

["Michael Myers" <myers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

> On Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:34 PM you wrote:
>
> The basic job of a DPD server is to discover a certification path. In
> its most basic form, it will perform the following steps:
>
> 1) Receive a request containing a target certificate and inputs to the
>    validation algorithm (trust anchors, etc.)
> 2) Attempt to discover a certification path ending in the target
>    certificate that will validate properly given the supplied inputs
> 3) Send a response containing the results of the discovery process
>    (at least an indication of success or failure and, in the success
>    case, the discovered certification path)
>


The current DPD I-D also defines a fourth area of functionality.  It enables
a client to iteratively discover a path acceptable to the client in the case
where a given certificate may be subject to multiple valid paths.

Mike