CVC certificate
858245May 17 2011 — edited May 17 2011Why CVC certificates are introduced at the first place? Are they necessary only in scenario of device authentication (in case when we want to perform the terminal authentication)? In such case, the terminal must send its certificate to the smart card. Afterwards the smart card has to verify the sent CVC certificate. And so on … Are CVC certificates easily to be parsed (less CPU and less memory) then x509 format? Is PKI infrastructure prepared for the CVC certificate format? Is there any benefit or need for the user to have CVC certificate format?