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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

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

An Overview of Computer Security as Told Through War Stories

A computer is secure if you can depend upon it and its software to perform, as you would expect. To put it another way, a secure computer ensures that the ...

Written by: Ronald Seidl and added on June 26, 2011

Encryption Regulation: A First Amendment Perspective

The methods by which we communicate with each other are changing rapidly. Advances in technology have allowed us to move away from traditional paper-based media to the digital communications of ...

Document added on May 24, 2011

Active Net Steward - Distributed Firewall

Recent studies have proven just how incorrect that assumption is. A Digital Research, Inc. reported, "Authorized users are by far a company's biggest security threat." (3) A study by the ...

Written by: Daniel L. Safeer and added on April 4, 2011

Choosing The Best Firewall

Due to the phenomenal growth of the Internet in the last couple of year's companies find it hard to operate without a presence on the Internet. This means that companies ...

Written by: Gerhard Cronje and added on May 6, 2011

Adventures in Computer Forensics

What exactly do forensic analysts do? How can this type of work help law enforcement or corporate security managers? If you want to solve a puzzle isnÂ’t it often best ...

Document added on Feb. 4, 2011

Step by Step Installation of a Secure Linux Web, DNS and Mail Server

This paper will show how the author configured a Linux based web and e-mail server for a small company. This server is co-located at a local ISP. Because of budget ...

Document added on April 10, 2011