Security without Obscurity

Chapter 5

PKI Roles and Responsibilities

As discussed in Chapter 4, “PKI Management and Security,” the certificate policy (CP) and the certificate practice statement (CPS) addresses controls for the public key infrastructure participants—the certificate authority (CA), the registration authority (RA), the relying party, and the subscriber. We also introduced the policy authority (PA). This chapter continues the discussion for the various PKI roles and responsibilities. We first consider Table 5.1 that provides a high-level description of responsibilities for each primary role.

Table 5.1

Public Key Infrastructure Primary Roles and Responsibilities

Primary Role	Responsibilities
PKI technicians	Technicians are individuals ...