Certificate revocation is one of the many challenges faced by Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Certificate revocation is the action of declaring a certificate, which has not expired, is no longer valid due to various reasons ranging from change of relationship between certificate issuer and the public key owner to compromised private keys of the associated certificate to change of information c...

A certificate issued by a user u for another user v enables any user that knows the public key of u to obtain the public key of v. A certificate dispersal D assigns a set of certificates D.u to each user u in the system so that user u can find a public key of any other user v without consulting a third party. In this paper, we present a stabilizing certificate dispersal protocol that tolerates ...