PKI - 103 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 (16)
Presentations (83)
Policies (1)
Podcasts (1)
Blogs (3)

Publications (16)

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.

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views
CSD2786	Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy Stephen T. Kent and Lynnette I. Millett (Editors) Articles, Papers, and Reports	Security Task Force	01/01/2003	5,518
CSD2852	Public Key Cryptography Demystified Robert J. Brentrup Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	4,146
CSD2905	IBM, Adobe Team to Improve PKI in PDF Erin Joyce Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	3,795
CSD3675	Revenge of the PKI Nerds Anonymous Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Contributions	01/01/2004	2,387
DEC0103	What is a Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI? Mark Luker Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Committees	01/01/2001	6,096
EAF0329	PKI Implementation Birds-of-a-Feather Jeannette Fielden Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2003	4,352
EKF0301	Public Key Infrastructure: Making Progress, But Many Challenges Remain Key Findings Dan Blum and Gerry Gebel Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	03/28/2003	4,380
EPS286	Developing a Certification Authority for PKI at Virginia Tech Mary Dunker Effective Practices	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	2,038
EQM0037	Higher Education Partners with the Federal Government for PKI Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Quarterly	01/01/2000	4,921
ERB0205	The Emergence of Identity Service Providers Ken Klingenstein and Nate Klingenstein Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	03/05/2002	7,907
ERM0056	Digital Certificates: How, Why, What to Do Next ? Gregory A. Jackson Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/01/2000	4,949
ERM02512	Digital Security in a Free Society James E. Wright Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/01/2002	4,173
ERM0427	PKI: A Technology Whose Time Has Come in Higher Education Mark Franklin, Larry Levine, Denise Anthony, and Robert Brentrup Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/01/2004	4,976
ERM05311	Knock, Knock, Who’s There? Mark A. Luker Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/01/2005	4,545
ERS0301	Public Key Infrastructure: Making Progress, But Many Challenges Remain Dan Blum and Gerry Gebel Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	03/28/2003	8,447
SER0133	Educause Southeast Regional Conference Roundtable Discussion on PKI Art Vandenberg Articles, Papers, and Reports	Southeast Regional	01/01/2001	4,854

Presentations (83)

Stepping away from the distractions of normal routine to meet with peers, share experiences, and learn together can be invaluable. EDUCAUSE places great emphasis on the face-to-face meeting experience, offering you numerous opportunities throughout the year to gather with colleagues - from small regional events and special topic meetings to large, national conferences covering the full spectrum of roles and issues important to higher education. For more information on EDUCAUSE conferences and seminars, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page. Listed below is the full range of presentations EDUCAUSE and its members tagged with PKI

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views
CMR0156	Internet2 Progress Report: Middleware Experiments Renee Woodten Frost Presentations/Speeches	CUMREC (Archives)	01/01/2001	5,065
CMR0160	Case Study: Establishing Momentum for Implementing Directory & Public Key Infrastructure Arthur Vandenberg Presentations/Speeches	CUMREC (Archives)	01/01/2001	4,947
CMR0411	PKI: A Technology Whose Time Has Come in Higher Education Mark Franklin Presentations/Speeches	CUMREC (Archives)	01/01/2004	3,287
CSD1898	Authentication Etc. Workshop Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2002	4,521
CSD3673	Ninth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,151
CSD3674	Tenth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,233
CSD4059	Eleventh Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	1,832
CSD4344	Twelfth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	1,878
CSD4445	Thirteenth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Speakers Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,812
CSD4742	Fourteenth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Presenters Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,602
CSD4966	Fifteenth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	06/14/2007	1,433
EAF0309	PKI and Academic Applications Robert J. Brentrup Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2003	4,194
EAF0313	Weaving a Trust Fabric: Shibboleth and PKI Keith D. Hazelton, Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2003	4,739
EAF0328	The Last Six Months in Middleware: Highlights of Recent Developments Keith D. Hazelton, Kenneth J. Klingenstein and R.L. Morgan Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2003	5,056
EAF033P	Advanced CAMP Meeting - 2003 Proceedings Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2003	2,769
EAF0456	PKI: The Glue of Middleware Michael R. Gettes Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2004	2,771
EAF0464	Authentication Technologies Survey: Kerberos, LDAP, Client-Side PKI, and Other Solutions Paul B. Hill Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2004	3,319
EAF0613	Addressing the Requirements: Policy Frameworks and Technical Method Paul B. Hill, R.L. Morgan, David H. Walker and David L. Wasley Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	02/09/2006	2,313
EAF0614	The Big Picture: The Pieces Fit Together James A. Jokl and R.L. Morgan Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	02/10/2006	2,222
EAF0621	Campus Policy Issues: Supporting Levels of Assurance, Federations and PKI David L. Wasley Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	02/09/2006	2,409
EAF0622	Federating and PKI: Case Studies Paul B. Hill and Chad La Joie Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	02/09/2006	2,501
EAF0632	The International Grid Trust Federation Dhivakaran Muruganantham Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	02/08/2006	2,252
EDU0053	Federal and State PKI Bridge Evolution: Cutting Across Stovepipes Robert F. German, Jr., Richard Guida, and Shirley C. Payne, Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2000	4,495
EDU0115	Inter-Institution PKI: Bridging the Gap Peter Alterman, Michael R. Gettes, Clair W. Goldsmith, Keith D. Hazelton and David L. Wasley Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2001	5,418
EDU0190	Federal PKI Initiatives: Building PKI Interoperability David Temoshok Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2001	5,788

Policies (1)

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

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