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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 ([KeyServer]s, [TimeStampServer]s, [RobotCA]'s, crypto-aware [MailClient]s such as EnigMail and [PINE] etc.)
+* software (for
[KeyServer]s, [TimeStampServer]s, [RobotCA]'s, crypto-aware [MailClient]s such as EnigMail and [PINE] etc.)
+* servers ([KeyServer]s, [TimeStampServer]s, [RobotCA]'s,
etc.)
* actual content (the [PublicKey]s and the WebOfTrust's signatures)
-* social structure to support the software and content ([KeySigningParties|KeySigningParty], etc.)
+* social structure to support the software and content ([KeySigningParties|KeySigningParty], etc.), which is very often symbiotic with other social structures, often including [LUG]s.
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+The security of the PublicKeyInfrastructure is not uniform and for many of the players issues such as ease of use, price and reliability are much more important.
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