X.509 path discovery test suite

["David A. Cooper" <david.cooper@nist.gov>]

All,

I have begun work on a path discovery test suite to complement the PKITS 
path validation test suite.  The test suite consists of a set of PKIs 
and a set of end entity certificates with the goal being to determine 
whether a path discovery and validation implementation is capable of 
navigating the PKIs in order to obtain the certificates and CRLs 
necessary to validate the end entity certificates.

The initial draft version of the test suite is available at 
http://csrc.nist.gov/pki/testing/pathdiscovery.html and a presentation 
that provides an overview of the test suite is available at 
http://csrc.nist.gov/pki/twg/y2005/Presentations/May05-Cooper.pdf.

If you have any comments on the test suite, you may either send them 
directly to me or send them to the pkits@nist.gov mail list.

Thanks,

Dave