A Practical Approach to Expose the Public Key Infrastructure Features through Webservices

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) provides services that permit users to communicate in a secure manner on an unsecure network by means of digital certificates and cryptography primitives. However, in order to secure an application through cryptography and PKI, cryptographic primitives need to be implemented in the programming language used to develop the application. This raises scalability and interoperability issues as the diversity of programming languages and development environments requires all cryptography primitives to be implemented in each of the existing programming languages. Therefore, this paper presents a practical approach to secure an application with cryptographic primitives developed in different languages through service oriented architecture technology.