PKI - 5 Resources

A PKI (public key infrastructure) enables users of a basically unsecure public network such as the Internet to securely and privately exchange data and money through the use of a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained and shared through a trusted authority. The public key infrastructure provides for a digital certificate that can identify an individual or an organization and directory services that can store and, when necessary, revoke the certificates. Although the components of a PKI are generally understood, a number of different vendor approaches and services are emerging. Meanwhile, an Internet standard for PKI is being worked on. The public key infrastructure assumes the use of public key cryptography, which is the most common method on the Internet for authenticating a message sender or encrypting a message. Traditional cryptography has usually involved the creation and sharing of a secret key for the encryption and decryption of messages. This secret or private key system has the significant flaw that if the key is discovered or intercepted by someone else, messages can easily be decrypted. For this reason, public key cryptography and the public key infrastructure is the preferred approach on the Internet. (The private key system is sometimes known as symmetric cryptography and the public key system as asymmetric cryptography.)

• Publications (1)
• Policies (1)
• Podcasts (1)
• Blogs (3)

Publications (1)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about PKI.

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Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views	Ranking
CSD3675	Revenge of the PKI Nerds		01/01/2004	2,387

Policies (1)

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Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views	Ranking
CSD4257	X.509 Certification Authority Policy & Practices Higher Education PKI-Lite Policies and Procedures	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	1,835

Podcasts (1)

Name	Views	Post date
An Interview with David Walker   Play | Show Notes | Download (9.81 MB audio/mpeg)	3,346	12/18/2006

Blogs (3)

EDUCAUSE hosts a number of blogs for its members. To view a list of all our blogs, click here.

Title	Blogger	Posted	Views
1st Annual EDUCAUSE PKI Deployment Forum: Registration Open	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	02/19/2008	343
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Resources Available	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	08/13/2007	4,124
Lancope Joins EDUCAUSE Identity Management Services Program	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	03/22/2007	3,467