Security Without Obscurity, 2nd Edition

10 PKI Industry

DOI: 10.1201/9781003425298-10

This book describes Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) as an operational system employing cryptography, information technology, business rules, specific use cases, and legal matters. Whereas both cryptography and information technology are reasonably consistent across the PKI industry, the business rules, use cases, and legal matters vary among different industry groups. Many of the relevant standards organizations are discussed in Chapter 1, “Introduction,” along with a history of the associated industry standards in Chapter 3, “PKI Building Blocks,” including ITU-T, PKCS, ASC X9, and IETF. As shown in Figure 10.1, this chapter looks at a long history of PKI industry trends relating to PKI policy ...