The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and related standards are gaining powerful momentum as a solution for a wide range of security issues associated with electronic commerce. This book represents the first complete primer on PKI for both technical and non-technical professionals. Unlike academic treatises on PKI, this book is focused on getting results -- and on answering the critical questions implementers and managers have about PKI deployment, operation, and administration. The book begins with an overview of the security problems PKI is intended to solve; the fundamentals of secret key cryptography, and the significant challenges posed by key distribution. Messaoud Benantar introduces the foundations of public key cryptography, and the essential role played by public key assurance systems. Once you understand the basics, he introduces PKIX, the Internet Public Key Infrastructure standard, and shows how to leverage it in constructing secure Internet solutions. Benantar covers PKIX standards, notational language, and data encoding schemes; the Internet PKI technology; PKI trust models; certificate validation; credentials management; key rollover issues, and more.
For every security developer, administrator, IT manager, and decision-maker concerned with securing Internet and e-commerce applications.
- ISBN10 0130609277
- ISBN13 9780130609274
- Publish Date 21 December 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English