Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Deploying a Public Key Infrastructure with Windows Server 2012

The term public key infrastructure (PKI) is often loosely thrown around, but is not often thoroughly explained. PKI, in a nutshell, is the collection of digital certificates, registration authorities, and certificate authorities that verify the validity of each participant in an encrypted network. Effectively, a PKI itself is simply a concept that defines the mechanisms that ensure that data in transit cannot be read and validates the identity of the user or entity that sent the data. PKI implementations are widespread and are becoming a critical component of modern network and system implementations. Windows Server 2012 fully supports the deployment of multiple PKI configurations, ...