Abstract - Nested certificates are used to certify their subject
certificates. In this way, the subject certificates can be verified via
their nested certificates without using signature verification methods
based on public key cryptosystems. Such a verification method is called
as subject certificate verification. In this paper, subject certificate
verification method will be introduced. It will be shown that subject certificate
verification has the same confidence as the cryptographic certificate verification
also. Moreover, subject certificate verification is faster than the cryptographic
certificate verification. It will also be shown that a classical certificate
can be verified via a sequence of nested certificates – called nested certificate
path – and such verification has the same confidence as the cryptographic
verification of the same certificate. Nested certificate path verification
is faster than the classical certificate path verification also. Moreover
in this paper, simulation results will be presented for the efficiency
improvement in the nested certificate path verification method over the
cryptographic classical certificate path verification method.
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