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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 (for KeyServers, TimeStampServers, RobotCA's, crypto-aware MailClients such as EnigMail and PINE etc.)
- servers (KeyServers, TimeStampServers, RobotCA's, etc.)
- actual content (the PublicKeys and the WebOfTrust's signatures)
- social structure to support the software and content (KeySigningParties, etc.), which is very often symbiotic with other social structures, often including a LUGs.
CategoryCryptography