VeriSign’s Description of Digital ID’s
A Digital ID typically contains the:
- Owner's public key
- Owner's name
- Expiration date of the public key
- Name of the issuer (the CA that issued the Digital ID)
- Serial number of the Digital ID
- Digital signature of the issuer
The most widely accepted format for Digital IDs is defined by the CCITT X.509 international standard; thus certificates can be read or written by any application complying with X.509.
- Further refinements are found in the PKCS standards and the PEM standard.