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
DEC0103	What is a Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI? Mark Luker Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Committees	01/01/2001	6,096
ERB0205	The Emergence of Identity Service Providers Ken Klingenstein and Nate Klingenstein Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	03/05/2002	7,907
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
EPS286	Developing a Certification Authority for PKI at Virginia Tech Mary Dunker Effective Practices	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	2,038
ERM0056	Digital Certificates: How, Why, What to Do Next ? Gregory A. Jackson Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/01/2000	4,949
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
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
EQM0037	Higher Education Partners with the Federal Government for PKI Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Quarterly	01/01/2000	4,920
SER0133	Educause Southeast Regional Conference Roundtable Discussion on PKI Art Vandenberg Articles, Papers, and Reports	Southeast Regional	01/01/2001	4,854
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
EAF0329	PKI Implementation Birds-of-a-Feather Jeannette Fielden Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2003	4,352
ERM02512	Digital Security in a Free Society James E. Wright Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/01/2002	4,173
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

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
PKI08001	CA Options: Buy or Build, and Signed by Whom? James A. Jokl, Paul Caskey, and Nicholas Davis Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	123
PKI08002	Audit: Not Just for the Finance Guys Anymore Nathan Faut and William A. Weems Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	150
PKI08003	PKI and Grids James A. Jokl and Scott A. Rea Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	141
PKI08004	Campus Success Stories: How We Did It Here William A. Weems, Phil Saunders, and Scott A. Rea Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	127
PKI08008	PKI-Enabled Applications That Work James A. Jokl, Mark B. Jones, and Linda Pruss Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	462
SEC08067	Who Are You? Leveraging PKI for Digital Signatures at Virginia Tech Mary Dunker Presentations/Speeches	Security Professionals Conference	05/04/2008	568
PKI08005	Usability and User Education and Support Brian Rust and James Lowe Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	97
PKI08006	PKI and LOA: It's Probably Not What You Think Stefan Wahe and David L. Wasley Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	147
PKI08007	How to Deploy and Get the Most Out of Tokens Scott A. Rea and Paul Caskey Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	04/16/2008	354
SEC08062	SANS Partnership Program: A Panel Discussion of Successes and Challenges Cherry Delaney, Zachary Reimer, Scott Z. Wilson, Randall Raw, and Thomas Siu Presentations/Speeches	Security Professionals Conference	05/04/2008	155
NET0023	EDUCAUSE - NIH PKI Interoperability project Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Policy Office	01/01/2002	10,366
EDU07213	The Federal Government and Identity Management: An Update Peter Alterman and David Temoshok Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/23/2007	395
EDU03172	Current Developments in PKI Peter Alterman, Clair W. Goldsmith, Kenneth J. Klingenstein and Steven L. Worona Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2003	4,366
CMR0156	Internet2 Progress Report: Middleware Experiments Renee Woodten Frost Presentations/Speeches	CUMREC (Archives)	01/01/2001	5,065
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
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
EAF0622	Federating and PKI: Case Studies Paul B. Hill and Chad La Joie Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	02/09/2006	2,501
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
NMD0201	Public Key Infrastructure Clair W. Goldsmith and David L. Wasley Presentations/Speeches	Net@EDU (State Networks)	01/01/2002	4,742
NMD0604	PKI Solutions: Buy vs. Build Nicholas Davis, James A. Jokl and David L. Wasley Presentations/Speeches	Net@EDU (State Networks)	02/06/2006	2,622
PKI0105	The ABA PAG Rodney J. Petersen Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	01/01/2001	4,991
PKI0506	Interinstitutional Trust Fabric Mark Franklin, John CW Krienke, Scott A. Rea, Russel F. Weiser, and Steven L. Worona Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	07/26/2005	2,249
PKI0508	EDUCAUSE Negotiated Vendor Programs Mark A. Luker and Steven L. Worona Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	07/26/2005	2,200
CSD4966	Fifteenth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	06/14/2007	1,433

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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