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PKI: Ten Years Later

whitepaper The original definition of PKI may be dead or dying, but PKI technology continues to thrive as an extremely useful (and, in some cases, necessary) authentication solution. This paper examines the history and evolution of so-called Public Key...

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[04 May 2008]

A Scalable PKI for a National Grid Service

whitepaper This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service (NGS), to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. As the NGS grows to support wider and larger scientific communities, the paper investigate how to...

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[03 May 2008]

PorKI: Making User PKI Safe on Machines of Heterogeneous Trustworthiness

whitepaper Public key cryptography can reduce this risk of attack, because authentication using PKI is designed to not give away sensitive data. As evidenced by the proliferation of phishing attacks and keystroke loggers, everyone knows that human beings are...

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[02 May 2008]

BGI Enhances End User Productivity Using the Secure Reduced Sign-on Capability of the Windows 2000 Active Directory Service

whitepaper Active Directory provided industry-standard Kerberos and PKI for secure cross-platform reduced sign-on authentication, and programming interfaces to speed the deployment of new solutions. A business value analysis based on the Rapid Economic...

Tags: directory services, administrator, authentication, directory

[10 Apr 2008]

Why Strong Authentication? - The Security and Administrative Benefits of Using X.509 PKI Based Strong Authentication

whitepaper Strong authentication based on X.509 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is available in a number of protocols and provides both security & administrative benefits and drawbacks. This paper looks at the security and administrative benefits (and draw...

Tags: network security

[06 Jan 2008]

Why Strong Authentication for Directory?

whitepaper LDAP and the X.500 directory protocols can all use strong authentication based on X.509 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). This paper looks at the benefits and issues in using strong authentication for directory.

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[06 Jan 2008]

Federated Identity, Distributed PKI and Smart Cards

whitepaper It describes why use of a distributed PKI is generally superior to a federated identity approach. This paper considers authentication systems based on smart cards, where the smart cards will be issued by many organizations, and authentication must...

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[06 Jan 2008]

Microsoft Webcast: Windows Server 2008 Security Enhancements (Level 200)

whitepaper In this overview, the presenter highlights the new security technologies found in Windows Server 2008, including Server and Domain Isolation, Network Access Protection (NAP), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enhancements, Windows BitLocker Drive...

Tags: application servers, windows server, compliance, authentication

[23 Dec 2007]

Biometrics

whitepaper Biometrics can enhance PKI technology, and, symbiotically, PKI technology can secure biometric technology. The process of verifying that the person with whom a system is communicating or conducting a transaction is, in fact, that specific...

Tags: pki, person, biometric, transaction

[28 Nov 2006]

A Technical Comparison of TTLS and PEAP

whitepaper Unless one has a well-oiled PKI already deployed, bypass Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) to avoid the client certificate headaches. Selection of an authentication method is the key decision in securing a...

Tags: wireless lan, method, client, layer

[10 Nov 2006]

Guide To Securing Intranet And Extranet Servers

whitepaper The guide will also describe how an intelligently deployed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)system, based on the digital certificate technology, addresses these security goals. Finally, the guide will give an overview of how VeriSign's Managed PKI...

Tags: modems, pki, public key infrastructure, risks

[01 Oct 2006]

Fujitsu mPollux: PalmSign Security Option

whitepaper While the security achieved by such means is high, the threshold for applying such an infrastructure for smaller scale business cases can be high as well.mPollux Security Server provides a range of security solutions from conventional user id...

Tags: network security, schemes, scale, authentication

[26 Aug 2006]

EPC Network: Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

whitepaper Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) cryptography and digital signature technology, applied via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) digital certificates, provide the authentication, data integrity, and privacy necessary for e-commerce.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, trust, transactions, commerce

[04 Aug 2006]

Federal Bridge Certification Authority: An Approach to Addressing Inter-Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure and Directory Technology Interoperability

whitepaper A key element of PKC is the establishment of a public key infrastructure (PKI) through which confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation services can be executed utilizing "trusted units of information" called certificates.

Tags: security management, federal, supports, pki

[30 Aug 2005]

U.S. Government Printing Office: Authentication

whitepaper The steps that have been taken to stand-up a PKI and the associated digital signature process used in accordance with the policies and infrastructure of this system will enable GPO to assure customers that electronic files are unchanged since...

Tags: pki, electronic, gpo, enable

[30 Aug 2005]

Certificate-Based Authentication: A Homeland Security Imperative

whitepaper This explains why the Department of Defense, for example, is using smart cards and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to address the need for stronger authentication. To comply with the new regulation, simple passwords - easily hacked, often forgotten...

Tags: cyber security, identification, authentication, federal

[23 Aug 2005]

Using Security Middleware to Extend Your PKI Infrastructure

whitepaper This paper identifies the key challenges organizations face in implementing PKI solutions and explains how the V-ONE SmartGate product line can serve as an effective PKI enabler. SmartGate is a standards-based middleware solution designed to...

Tags: security management, pki, face, leverage

[22 Aug 2005]

Secure Access Control With Government Contactless Cards

whitepaper These deployments use PKI tokens in the form of contact smart cards with private keys protected through a match-on-card second factor such as a PIN. This paper discusses ways to use digitally signed messages to perform strong authentication and...

Tags: pki, cards, perform, card

[22 Aug 2005]

VeriSign Unified Authentication

whitepaper However, provisioning and managing strong authentication mechanisms like One-Time Passwords (OTPs), USB tokens, and public key infrastructure (PKI) can be a complex and costly task. Enterprises frequently deploy multiple authentication mechanisms...

Tags: security management, authentication, scenarios, mechanisms

[22 Aug 2005]

Secure M-Commerce With WPKI

whitepaper This paper gives a brief overview of PKI in general and WPKI in particular. PKI consists of two basic elements: public key cryptography and public key certification practice. This paper also addresses some shortcomings of WAP and how these problems...

Tags: pki, wap, elements, addresses

[22 Mar 2005]

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