An overview of PKI trust models.

If Alice and Bob each know their own private key and the other's public key, they can communicate securely, through any number of public key based protocols such as IPSec, PGP, S/MIME, or SSL. However, how do they know each other's public keys? The goal of a public key infrastructure (PKI)...

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Published in:IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 13, 6 (1999).
Main Author: Perlman, R.
Format: Article
Language:English
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