Security+ Training Guide

Understanding and Explaining Key Management/Certificate Lifecycle

Understand the concepts involved in key management and the digital certificate lifecycle.

The critical element to any PKI solution is the ability to manage the digital certificates and the key pairs that are used. Different uses have different requirements. For instance, a corporate implementation usually requires a key escrow capability to comply with corporate security policies, but an individual often does not want her private key to be accessible to anyone but herself.

Centralized Versus Decentralized Key Management

PKI solutions have different methods of creating and managing digital certificates based on their security policy. In a centralized key management solution, the ...