RFC 2246, The TLS Protocol Version 1.0. Internet Engineering Task Force , January 1999. 3.1 Electronic Commerce PKIs supporting electronic commerce enable transactions between vendors and customers.
Vendors act as servers and customers as clients.
However, the client is not typically authenticated. As is true for most CA based PKIs, CAs state the validity of certi cates through digital signature and distributed revocation state. RFC 2246, The TLS Protocol Version 1.0. Internet Engineering Task Force , January 1999. Internet in the form of SSL capable servers and clients and has become the de facto standard for transport layer security.