CompTIA® Security+™ SY0-401 Exam Cram, Fourth Edition

Chapter 13. Public Key Infrastructure

This chapter covers the following official CompTIA Security+ SY0-401 exam objectives:

Given a scenario, use appropriate PKI, certificate management, and associated components

(For more information on the official CompTIA Security+ exam topics, see the “About the CompTIA Security+ SY0-401 Exam” section in the Introduction.)

In Chapter 12, “Cryptography Tools and Techniques,” you learned the basic concepts of public and private keys. A public key infrastructure (PKI) makes use of both types of keys and provides the foundation for binding keys to an identity via a certificate authority (CA), thus providing ...