Chapter 13
Managing a Public Key Infrastructure
CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVES
13.01 PKI components
13.02 PKI certificates
13.03 PKI certificate file formats
QUESTIONS
Sensitive data exchange on any network will benefit from a public key infrastructure (PKI). A PKI provides security using digital certificates. Certificate authorities (CAs) issue certificates to valid parties for the purpose of confidentiality (encryption), integrity (digital signatures and hashing), authentication (user or device), and nonrepudiation (no disputing of an entity performing an action).
Each certificate consists of a unique, mathematically related public and private key pair in addition to other data such as the certificate expiration date. Compromised certificates ...
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