Status | Released |
Body | ITU (International Telecommunication Union) |
URL | http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/recommendations/rec.aspx?rec=X.509 |
Quoting from Wikipedia: X.509 is an ITU-T standard for a public key infrastructure (PKI) and Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI). X.509 specifies, amongst other things, standard formats for public key certificates, certificate revocation lists, attribute certificates, and a certification path validation algorithm.