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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]

Distributing Security-Mediated PKI

whitepaper Threshold cryptography is used to build a back-up and migration technique which allows recovery from a mediator crashing while also avoiding having all mediators share all secrets. The security-mediated approach to PKI offers several advantages...

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[02 May 2008]

The Security and Trust Services API (SATSA) for J2ME: The Security APIs

whitepaper This paper discusses a lot of information related to security and SATSA - from background on PKI and cryptography, to use-cases, the SATSA APIs and how to use them. Any person who is responsible for designing and developing secure J2ME applications...

Tags: java, pki, person, role

[06 Nov 2007]

MOCA: Mobile Certificate Authority for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

whitepaper It employs threshold cryptography to distribute the CA functionality over specially selected nodes based on the security and the physical characteristics of nodes. PKI has been recognized as one of the most effective tools for providing security...

Tags: network security, ad hoc, nodes, functionality

[20 Jul 2007]

Biometrics and Cryptography: Match On Card Paves the Way to Convenient Security

whitepaper It also provides details of how biometric techniques are used for PKI-based systems, with the Utimaco product line as an example. Biometric techniques have now been available for some time. Using these techniques brings a range of benefits, the...

Tags: pki, techniques, range, concepts

[09 Dec 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]

A Flexible Role-Based Secure Messaging Service: Exploiting IBE Technology for Privacy in Health Care

whitepaper It illustrates the advantages against a similar approach based on traditional cryptography and PKI. Traditional cryptographic systems and PKI show their limitations, in terms of flexibility and manageability.

Tags: pki, limitations, encryption, documents

[21 Apr 2006]

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

whitepaper In response to the growing impetus for the provision of online services and transactions in addition to existing Web-based services, both the federal government and private industry have embraced and are seeking to implement Public Key...

Tags: security management, federal, supports, pki

[30 Aug 2005]

Email encryption guru dabbles with VoIP

News Zimmermann said he added cryptography to it. Setting up and managing PKI can be laborious. Zimmermann's system does not use PKI. Phil Zimmermann hopes that his secure net phone-calling efforts will be as successful as his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP...

Tags: zimmermann, pgp, voip

[27 Jul 2005]

Secure M-Commerce With WPKI

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

Tags: pki, wap, elements, addresses

[22 Mar 2005]

Cryptography and PKI Basics

whitepaper A public key infrastructure (PKI) encompasses the techniques and standards used to manage certificates and public and private keys in order to authenticate the validity of each party involved in an electronic transaction.

Tags: pki, encryption, concepts, authority

[24 Feb 2004]

Issues in the Implementation of PKI in UK HE/FE

whitepaper PKI integrates public key cryptography, digital certificates and Certificate Authorities with the procedures to create and manage this infrastructure. Public key cryptography, for encryption and digital signatures, involves the use of two keys.

Tags: pki, messages, signatures, verify

[24 Feb 2004]

TopSec Authorizer

whitepaper Underlying many of the secure applications and protocols being used today is what is known as the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - the set of tools used to manage the keys used in public key cryptography.

Tags: ip technologies, protocols, cryptography, public key infrastructure

[24 Feb 2004]

An Introduction to the Windows 2000 Public Key Infrastructure (Dell)

whitepaper Public key cryptography offers significant security benefits when it's properly implemented. Like other enabling technologies, public-key cryptography requires an infrastructure to deliver its benefits.

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003, pki, cryptography, public key

[24 Feb 2004]

PKI - A Technology or a Hype Too Far?

whitepaper First it is important to distinguish between public key cryptography (as discovered by Rivest, Shamir and Adelman, or Clifford Cocks) and PKI or public key infrastructure. PKI has been getting a lot of bad press of late, but is it justified?

Tags: pki, press, failed, cryptography

[24 Feb 2004]

An Introduction to PKI

whitepaper It mentions the features and services used by the PKI and the techniques involved in public key cryptography. This guide provides the reader with a basic introduction to key terms and concepts used in a PKI including Certificates, Keys and...

Tags: pki, pki, concepts, terms

[24 Feb 2004]

A Flexible Role-based Secure Messaging Service: Exploiting IBE Technology in a Health Care Trial

whitepaper It illustrates the advantages over a similar approach based on traditional cryptography and PKI. Solutions based on traditional cryptographic systems and PKI show their limitations, in terms of flexibility and manageability.

Tags: email

[24 Feb 2004]

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 - Working with Baltimore Technologies PKI Solutions

whitepaper Public-key cryptography is recognized by Microsoft as a key technology for e-commerce, Intranets, Extranets and other web-enabled applications. To leverage benefits of public-key cryptography, a supporting applications infrastructure is needed.

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003, enabled, cryptography, operating system

[24 Feb 2004]

Using Public Key Cryptography in Mobile Phones

whitepaper Public key cryptography is a primary concept in implementing wireless device security. Many papers have been written about public key infrastructure, this paper does not delve into the deeper mechanisms of PKI.

Tags: pki, device, pki, mobile phone

[24 Feb 2004]

A Network Security Primer

whitepaper The session discusses the terminology and the technology behind cryptography, including Message Digests, Digital signatures, ciphers and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This audiocast enables developers to understand security, and surprisingly the...

Tags: pki, public key infrastructure, message, concepts

[24 Feb 2004]

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