The SPKI Working Group has developed a standard form for digital certificates whose main purpose is authorization rather than authentication.\u00a0 These structures bind either names or explicit authorizations to keys or other objects.\u00a0 The binding to a key can be directly to an explicit key, or indirectly through the hash of the key or a name for it.\u00a0 The name and authorization structures can be used separately or together.\u00a0 We use S-expressions as the standard format for these certificates and define a canonical form for those S-expressions.\u00a0 As part of this development, a mechanism for deriving authorization decisions from a mixture of certificate types was developed and is presented in this document.<\/p>\n
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