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Common Criteria Evaluation for a Trusted Entrust / PKI
Overview The notion of trust is fundamental in public-key infrastructures (PKIs). For PKIs to be valuable, users must be assured that the parties they communicate with are safe, i.e. their identities and keys are valid and trustworthy. To provide this assurance, there must be confidence that the technology involved in binding the names of users to their public keys is trusted. The technology used to create these bindings includes security mechanisms and services that provide the secure generation, destruction, and distribution of cryptographic keys, cryptographic operations, identification and authentication, complete access control, management of security functions and services, roles and separation of duties, audit of security critical events, secure communications, data protection, and more. These mechanisms and services contribute jointly in allowing the Certification Authority (CA) to securely bind together the user identities and public keys in a digital format known as a public-key certificate.
| Publisher | Entrust Technologies | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | March 2000 | Downloads | 1 |
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