Efficient and Fresh Cerification

Electronic commerce is becoming more and more commonplace, but security is still a major concern. To provide security, a good public-key infrastructure (PKI) is needed. However, PKIs have been slow in developing, with one of the major difficulties being the creation of certification authorities (CAs), and in particular, dealing with the problem of certificate revocation. We propose a new solution to this problem.

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