Public Key Infrastructure
FAQs, Introductions
What is a PKI?
(RSA FAQ)
Advances and Remaining Challenges to Adoption of Public Key Infrastructure Technology
(United States General Accounting Office, 2001)
Different PKI-s
PGP
BAL's PGP Public Key Server
((MIT))
MIT distribution site for PGP
OCSP
OCSP
(SearchSecurity definition)
SDSI (Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure)
ECC-DSA for SPKI
(Nigel Smart)
PKI Forum
European ICE-TEL Project
PKI-Seminar
Introductions
A Survey of Public-Key Infrastructures
(Marc Branchaud, 1997)
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Time-Stamping Links
Say no to PKI?
Anti-PKI papers
Thirteen Reasons to Say 'No' to Public Key Cryptography
(Thierry Moreau)
Why Should We Look for Alternatives to the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Model?
(Thierry Moreau)
Ten Risks of PKI: What You're Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure
(Carl Ellison and Bruce Schneier, 2000)
Risks of PKI: Electronic Commerce
(Ellison, Schneier, Inside Risks 116, 2000)
Anti-CRL and efficiency Papers
Fast Digital Identity Revocation
(Aiello, Lodha, Ostrovsky)
Can We Eliminate Revocation Lists?
(Ronald L. Rivest)
Efficient Certificate Revocation
(Silvio Micali)
Certificate Revocation and Certificate Update
(Moni Naor, Kobbi Nissim)
Quick Introduction to Certificate Revocation Trees (CRTs)
(Paul Kocher)
A Response to `Can We Eliminate Certificate Revocation Lists?'
(Patrick McDaniel, Avi Rubin)
Accountable Certificate Management Using Undeniable Attestations
(Ahto Buldas, Peeter Laud, Helger Lipmaa, ACM CCS 2000)
A Method for Fast Revocation of Public Key Certificates and Security Capabilities
(D. Boneh, X. Ding, G. Tsudik, M. Wong, 2001)
Asynchronous large-scale certification based on certificate verification trees
(J. Domingo-Ferrer, M. Alba and F. Sebé, CMS 2001)
Standard Groups
Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) (pkix)
Simple Public Key Infrastructure (spki)
(03.04.99)
Conferences
Key Management Using Public Key Cryptography
(10-11.02.2000)
Link farms
Certification Links
(by Jan Willemson)
Theses
Certificate Revocation
(André Ĺrnes, 2000, MSc thesis)
A Survey of Public-Key Infrastructures
(Marc Branchaud, MSc Thesis)
A Study on Certificates in PKI
(Jaegwan Park, MSC Thesis)
Privacy in PKI (secret-key certificates)
Stefan Brands' publications
Off-line electronic cash based on secret-key certificates
(Stefan Brands Brands, 1995)
Restrictive blinding of secret-key certificates
(Stefan Brands, 1995)
Secret-key certificates
(Stefan Brands, 1995)
A note on parallel executions of restrictive blind issuing protocols for secret-key certificates
(Stefan Brands, 1995)
Restrictive blind issuing of secret-key certificates in parallel mode
(Stefan Brands, 1995)
More on restrictive blind issuing of secret-key certificates in parallel mode
(Stefan Brands, 1995)
Erratum
Secret-key certificates (continued)
(Stefan Brands, 1995)
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Self-certified Public Keys
Proof of possession
Proof of Possession
(Slides by Carlislie Adams)
Diffie-Hellman Proof-of-Possession Algorithms
(RFC 2875)
Other papers
Managing Multiple and Dependable Identities
(Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, and Pierangela Samarati, 2003)
Tradeoffs in certificate revocation schemes
(Peifang Zheng, 2003)
PKI: It s Not Dead, Just Resting
(Peter Gutmann, 2004)
Trust but Verify: Accountability for Network Services
(Aydan R. Yumerefendi and Jeffrey S. Chase, 2004)
Flexible, Secure and Private Point-based Trust Management
(Danfeng Yao, Keith B. Frikken, Mikhail J. Atallah, Roberto Tamassia)
National initiatives
Sweden
SwUPKI
(PKI for Universities and University Colleges in Sweden)
Software
Commercial
µPKI
JCSI
(Java Crypto and Security Implementation)
Open-source CA-s
Jonah
(PKIX freeware reference implementation)
OpenCerts
EJBCA
(Java Certificate Authority)
pyCA - X.509 CA
OpenCA
OpenCA labs
Oscar - Open Secure Certificate Architechture
(no longer developped)
Libraries
OpenSSL
Set up your own Certification Authority using free software
CML - Certificate Management Library
Some papers
Secure Key Recovery for Archived and Communicated Data in the Corporate Intranet
(E. Magkos, V. Chrissikopoulos, N. Alexandris, M. Poulos, 7th WSEAS Conference on Communications, 2003)
Scalable and Efficient PKI for Inter-Organizational Communication
(Ansper, Buldas, Freudenthal, Willemson, 2003)
Trust but Verify: Accountability for Network Services
(Aydan R. Yumerefendi and Jeffrey S. Chase, 2004)
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