MISPC Reference Implementation

NIST developed the Minimum Interoperability Specifications for PKI Components (MISPC), Version 1 with the assistance of ten partners: AT&T, BBN, Certicom, Cylink, DynCorp, IRE, Motorola, Nortel (Entrust), Spyrus, and Verisign. The specification includes a certificate and CRL profile, message formats and basic transactions for a PKI issuing signature certificates. Also, it includes support for multiple signature algorithms and transactions to support a broad range of security policies. This document is available at the MISPC WWW page.

Along with the specification, there is a reference implementation that is available only by ordering a CDROM from NIST. The CDROM does not contain cryptographic support.