Because it is intimately linked to the octet (and therefore to the integers that go from 0 to 127), the problem it presents is that it cannot encode more than 128 different symbols (128 is the total number of different configurations that can be achieved with 7 digits). binary (0000000, 0000001, ..., 1111111), using the eighth digit of each octet (parity bit or digit) to detect any transmission error.) A quota of 128 is sufficient to include upper and lower case letters of the English alphabet, plus numbers, punctuation, and some "control characters" (for example, one that instructs a printer to turn to the next page), but ASCII does not include either the accented characters or the beginning of a question mark used in Spanish , nor so many other symbols (mathematical, Greek letters, ...) that are necessary in many contexts Extended ASCII
As a solution to these problems, since 1991 it has been agreed internationally to use the Unicode standard, which is a large table, which currently assigns a code to each of the more than fifty thousand symbols, which cover all European alphabets, ideograms Chinese, Japanese, Korean, many other forms of writing, and more than a thousand special symbols.
Typographic tables But, finally, to correspond electronically in Mandarin (for example) an important detail is missing:
The table that the Unicode Consortium publishes to be read by humans, contains a graphic representation, or description, of each character included up to that moment; but, in order to function, document display systems require typography tables, which associate a glyph (drawing) to each character they encompass, and it happens that there are many typography tables, with names like Arial or Times, that draw a same letter based on different matrices and in different styles ("A" or "A"); however, the vast majority of typefaces contain only a small subset of all Unicode characters.
The Certification Hierarchy The CAs have their own public certificates, whose associated private keys are used by the CAs to sign the certificates they issue. A CA certificate can be self-signed when there is no higher CA to sign it.
This is the case for root CA certificates, the starting element of any certification hierarchy. A certification hierarchy consists of a hierarchical structure of CAs starting from a self-signed CA, and at each level, there is one or more CAs that can sign end-entity certificates (certificate holder: web server, person, web application). software) or certificates from other subordinate CAs fully identified and whose Certification Policy is compatible with the CAs of higher rank.
Normativa Normativa Europea La Directiva 93/1999 ha establecido un marco común aplicable a todos los paises de la Unión Europea por el que el nivel de exigencia que supone la normativa firma electrónica implica que los Prestadores de Servicios de Certificación que emiten certificados cualificados son merecedores de confianza por cualquier tercero que confía y sus certificados otorgan a la firma electrónica avanzada a la que acompañan el mismo valor que tiene la "firma manuscrita" o "firma ológrafa".