public key infrastructure
- public key infrastructure
- An enterprise-wide service (i.e. data integrity, user identification and authentication, user non-repudiation, data confidentiality, encryption, and digital signature) that supports digital signatures and other public key-based security mechanisms for Department of Defense functional enterprise programs, including generation, production, distribution, control, and accounting of public key certificates. A public key infrastructure provides the means to bind public keys to their owners and helps in the distribution of reliable public keys in large heterogeneous networks. Public keys are bound to their owners by public key certificates. These certificates contain information such as the owner
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Public Key Infrastructure — Infrastructure à clés publiques Pour les articles homonymes, voir ICP, IGC et PKI. Une Infrastructure à clés publiques (ICP) ou Infrastructure de Gestion de Clefs (IGC) ou encore Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), est un ensemble de composants… … Wikipédia en Français
Public key infrastructure — Infrastructure à clés publiques Pour les articles homonymes, voir ICP, IGC et PKI. Une Infrastructure à clés publiques (ICP) ou Infrastructure de Gestion de Clefs (IGC) ou encore Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), est un ensemble de composants… … Wikipédia en Français
Public key infrastructure — In cryptography, a public key infrastructure (PKI) is an arrangement that binds public keys with respective user identities by means of a certificate authority (CA). The user identity must be unique for each CA. The binding is established through … Wikipedia
Public Key Infrastructure — Schema einer Public Key Infrastruktur Mit Public Key Infrastruktur (PKI, engl. public key infrastructure) bezeichnet man in der Kryptologie ein System, welches es ermöglicht, digitale Zertifikate auszustellen, zu verteilen und zu prüfen. Die… … Deutsch Wikipedia
public key infrastructure — PKI (public key infrastructure) coding system which secures data exchange on networks like the internet by providing each party with digital certificates that validate their authenticity … English contemporary dictionary
public key infrastructure — noun an information technology infrastructure that allows the delivery of data from one person to another with the delivery being made secure by means of public key cryptography. Abbrev.: PKI …
Public Key Infrastructure — A proposal to provide a structure for verifying and authenticating users involved in transactions on the Internet or on corporate intranets and extranets. The proposal involves a set of trusted certificate authorities (CAs) who would… … Dictionary of networking
Simple public key infrastructure — (SPKI, pronounced spoo key ) was born out of a joint effort to overcome the overcomplication and scalability problems of traditional X.509 public key infrastructure. It is specified in two Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request For… … Wikipedia
Wireless Public Key Infrastructure — (WPKI) is a two factor authentication scheme using mainly the mobile phone and a laptop. Mainly promoted by banks, mobile operators, and mobile network manufacturers. External links * http://www.wpki.net *… … Wikipedia
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