Public Key Infrastructure - Waikato Linux Users Group

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The infrastruture required to verify that some user is who they say they are, either by PGP's WebOfTrust or a centralized certification infrastructure provided by a CertificationAuthority (or several). Also known as a PKI.

There are many parts to the infrastruture:

interoperability standards (X509, OpenPGP, LDAP, etc.) so that different products can work together
software (KeyServers, TimeStampServers, RobotCA's, crypto-aware MailClients such as EnigMail and PINE etc.)
actual content (the PublicKeys and the WebOfTrust's signatures)
social structure to support the software and content (KeySigningParties, etc.)

CategoryCryptography

7 pages link to PublicKeyInfrastructure:

PKI
WhySignEmail
WebOfTrust
TimeStampServer
RobotCA
SignaturePolicyURL
CertificationAuthority

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