Chapter 24 Consequences What happens when it all goes wrong
Failure may occur within any IT system, whether it be hardware or software or because of some user interface issue that had not been anticipated. The same is true of a public key infrastructure (PKI) system, but the consequences of failure within such a system may be dramatic. First of all, let us consider the possible causes of failure. Some of these shall be enumerated below:
- Certificate expiry. Probably, the most common error. Digital certificates have a validation period, and when a certificate has expired, the service that was accessing that particular certificate will react in some way.
- Misplaced certificates. There may be situations when, for one ...
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