Secure Public Key Infrastructure

Designed for practitioners and researchers in industry, this wide-ranging handbook provides a professional-level examination of security aspects of public key infrastructures. Where other references focus solely PGP or on X500/X509, Secure Public Key Infrastructure goes further to deal with corrupt certification authorities (CAs) and CAs whose computers were hacked. Most important, this reference includes strategies to survive limited malicious attacks on public key infrastructures, and lays the groundwork for the development of future safeguards.

Focus on security aspects of public key infrastructures Strategies to survive limited malicious attacks on public key infrastructures (PKI) Most other books on PKI focus solely on PGP or on X500/X509 Deals with corrupt certification authorities (CAs) and CAs whose computers were hacked

Inhalt
Preface.- Introduction.- The X509 Infrastructure.- The PGP and Paradigm.- Trust Models.- Platform Dependencies/Independencies.- Revocation.- Boom or Bust or Alternatives?.- Index.