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PKI Configuration
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Introduction to PKI
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PKI Configuration Task List
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Displaying and Maintaining PKI
PKI Configuration Examples
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Troubleshooting PKI
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PKI Overview
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PKI Terms
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Architecture of PKI
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Applications of PKI
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Currently, PKI employs the digital certificate
unication and e-commerce with security
services such as user authentication, data non-repudiation, data confidentiality, and data integrity.
ly, PKI system provides Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)..
PKI
Digital certificate
the signature of the CA ensures the validity and authority of the
digital certificate signed by a CA for an entity, while a CA certificate is the certificate of a CA. If multiple
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The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a general security infrastructure for providing information security
through public key technologies.
PKI, also called asymmetric key infrastructure, uses a key pair to encrypt and decrypt the data. The k
pair consists of a private key and a public key. The private key must be kept secret while the public key
needs to be distributed. Data encrypted by one of the two keys can only be decrypted by the other.
A key problem of PKI is how to manage the public keys.
mechanism to solve this problem. The digital certificate mechanism binds public keys to their owners,
helping distribute public keys in large networks securely.
With digital certificates, the PKI system provides network comm
Current
Terms
A digital certificate is a file signed by a certificate authority (CA) for an entity. It includes mainly the
identity information of the entity, the public key of the entity, the name and signature of the CA, and the
validity period of the certificate, where
certificate. A digital certificate must comply with the international standard of ITU-T X.509. Currently, the
most common standard is X.509 v3.
This manual involves two types of certificates: local certificate and CA certificate. A local certificate is a
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