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	4,975
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
CMR0160	Case Study: Establishing Momentum for Implementing Directory & Public Key Infrastructure Arthur Vandenberg Presentations/Speeches	CUMREC (Archives)	01/01/2001	4,947
CSD4742	Fourteenth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Presenters Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,602
EAF0313	Weaving a Trust Fabric: Shibboleth and PKI Keith D. Hazelton, Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2003	4,739
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
EDU0441	Deploying PKI: Current Developments Mark Franklin, Barry R. Ribbeck and Steven L. Worona Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/20/2004	3,078
LIVE0611	PKI Implementation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicholas Davis Presentations/Speeches	Web Seminars EDUCAUSE	01/01/2006	2,816
LIVE0619	Overview of U.S. Federal Government Identity Management Initiatives Peter Alterman Presentations/Speeches	Web Seminars EDUCAUSE	01/01/2006	1,959
NET0008	eduPerson Object Class Keith Hazelton Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Policy Office	01/01/2000	4,601
NMD07026	Identity Management (IDM) Presentations/Speeches	Net@EDU (State Networks)	02/06/2007	2,660
NTW0202	Looking Forward: Grid Computing, PKI Bridges, and the NSF Middleware Initiative - Panel Discussion Alan R. Blatecky, Thomas Garritano and Judith Spencer Presentations/Speeches	Policy (Archives)	01/01/2002	5,968
PKI0109	Policy Activities Peter Alterman, Kenneth J. Klingenstein, Arthur Vandenberg and David L. Wasley Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	01/01/2001	4,527
PKI0110	The CREN CA - Inside the PKI Framework: Activating the Puzzle Pieces Judith Boetcher Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	01/01/2001	5,671
PKI0111	The DST view of PKI Trent Henry and Casey Lide Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	01/01/2001	5,237
PKI0401	Buy vs. Build, Background Kenneth J. Klingenstein and Mark A. Luker Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	01/01/2004	3,207
PKI0504	CA Options Panel Bahaaldin Al-amood, Robert J. Brentrup, John Douglass, and William Weems Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	07/26/2005	2,481
PKI0509	GRIDs and Bridges Shelley Henderson and James A. Jokl Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	07/26/2005	2,661
PKI0510	HEPKI-TAG James A. Jokl Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	07/26/2005	1,986
PKI0511	Campus Applications 1: Network Authentication with PKI Robert J. Brentrup and James A. Jokl Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	07/27/2005	2,548
PKI0512	Campus Applications 2: Web Application Authentication with PKI Mark Franklin and William Weems Presentations/Speeches	PKI Meetings (Archives)	07/27/2005	2,737
SPC0601	PKI Implementation at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Nicholas Davis and Thomas McDonnell Presentations/Speeches	Security Professionals Conference	04/11/2006	2,115
CSD4445	Thirteenth Fed/Ed PKI Coordination Meeting Various Speakers Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,812
EAF0464	Authentication Technologies Survey: Kerberos, LDAP, Client-Side PKI, and Other Solutions Paul B. Hill Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	01/01/2004	3,317
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
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

Do you have a great resource that should be listed here? Email contribute@educause.edu with your recommendation!