Case Study 2: Public Key Infrastructure

CIS 333 Network Security Fundamentals

02/17/15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public key Infrastructure (PKI) will help the corporation to distribute and identify encryption keys between users so that information can be securely exchange over the network like the internet to verify the identity of the users of any given source. The mechanisms that help manage the creation of the key are hardware, software and policies created by the administrators of the network itself. A typical PKI includes the following key elements:

A trusted party, called a certificate authority (CA), acts as the root of trust and provides services that authenticate the identity of individuals, computers and other