Rethinking PKI: What's Trust Got to Do with It?

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  • Stephen T. Kent
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Much of the literature related to public key infrastructure (PKI) uses terms such as “trust” extensively and assumes that certification authorities (CAs) are trusted third parties (TTPs). It is certainly true that the best known CAs today are commercial TTPs, and such CAs have played an important role in making the general public aware of PKIs. But, not all PKIs need adopt this sort of CA model, in which relying parties are required to make value judgments about the trustworthiness of the organizations that operate CAs. PKIs are not intrinsically valuable. They are infrastructures that, if successful, facilitate authentication and authorization services based on the use of public key cryptography. Thus it is appropriate to ask questions about these services:

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تاریخ انتشار 2002