The chapter Chapter 2 has been taken from the SSLeay Certificate Cookbook written by Frederick J. Hirsch.
The chapter Chapter 6 is based on the document draft-ietf-pkix-roadmap and other documents produced by the PKIX Working Group.
The author would like to thank Massimiliano Pala and the OpenCA Group for writing the OpenCA software.
Miguel Armas, contributed in Appendix D and in the section called The OpenCA Project[TODO] in Chapter 7.
The author would like to thank Chris Mitchell for reviewing an earlier version of this document. The author would like to thank Ted Rolle for proof–reading the initial DocBook version of this document.
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