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PKI

The Risks Involved With Open and Closed Public Key Infrastructure

Over the past couple of decades, on-line communication, especially electronic mail and on-line shopping, has changed the way that people transfer sensitive information to and from each other. As long ...

Written by: Philip Hlavaty and added on March 23, 2011

No Single Killer App for PKI

This paper covers the well known security functions enabled by PKI, more attention, however is focused on business and technology issues associated with PKI implementations. Talk about Public Key Infrastructure ...

Written by: Cliff Schiller and added on March 25, 2011

PKI, The What, The Why, and The How

The purpose of this paper is to describe what Public Key Architecture (PKI) is, and how it can help organizations and individuals during the enactment of electronic transactions. I want ...

Written by: Duncan_Wood and added on May 7, 2011

A vulnerability assessment of roaming soft certificate PKI solutions

In the past two or three years most major PKI technology vendors have released products which allow digital certificate holders with "soft certificates" to have their private keys stored at ...

Written by: Stephen Wilson and added on Jan. 6, 2011

Decommissioning Certification Authorities

This paper outlines the process of terminating a certificate authority, this requires planning several physical, logical and human aspects. Security of information and reputation is at risk. The current and ...

Written by: Claudia N. Lukas and added on Jan. 3, 2011

Strong Authentication and Authorization model Using PKI, PMI, and Directory

Since Internet has been used commonly in information systems technologies, many applications need some security capabilities to protect against threats to the communication of information. Two critical procedures of these ...

Written by: Jong Wook Lee and added on May 6, 2011

PKI and Information Security Awareness: Opportunity and Obligation

Frequently discussed challenges to successful PKI deployments include integration with internal business processes and legacy systems, automation of processes that extend beyond the firewall to business partners, and user acceptance. ...

Written by: Jerry K Brown and added on Jan. 19, 2011

Integrate HMAC Capable Token into User Authentication Mechanism and Public Key Infrastructure

This article describes using a HMAC capable token in user authentication or public key infrastructure (PKI) to derive user private key or produce message digest for digital signature scheme. The ...

Written by: Unknown and added on March 5, 2011

Securing Certificate Revocation List Infrastructures

Anyone working within a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) or an environment that uses client side certificates should be concerned that during authentication the Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) are consistently & ...

Written by: Eddie Turkaly and added on Jan. 31, 2011

Public Key Infrastructure Issues in an Academic Healthcare Setting

Planning a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment in a healthcare environment is a challenge that has unique aspects, determined by the nature of the healthcare business and by the user ...

Written by: Liviu Groza and added on March 10, 2011