Introduction to the Public Key Infrastructure for the Internet (Hardcover)

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and related standards are gaining powerful momentum as a solution for a wide range of security issues associated with electronic commerce. This book represents the first complete primer on PKI for both technical and non-technical professionals. Unlike academic treatises on PKI, this book is focused on getting results -- and on answering the critical questions implementers and managers have about PKI deployment, operation, and administration. The book begins with an overview of the security problems PKI is intended to solve; the fundamentals of secret key cryptography, and the significant challenges posed by key distribution. Messaoud Benantar introduces the foundations of public key cryptography, and the essential role played by public key assurance systems. Once you understand the basics, he introduces PKIX, the Internet Public Key Infrastructure standard, and shows how to leverage it in constructing secure Internet solutions. Benantar covers PKIX standards, notational language, and data encoding schemes; the Internet PKI technology; PKI trust models; certificate validation; credentials management; key rollover issues, and more. For every security developer, administrator, IT manager, and decision-maker concerned with securing Internet and e-commerce applications.

The practical, results-focused PKI primer for every security developer and IT manager.

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and related standards give you powerful new ways to solve your toughest e-commerce and Internet security problems. Now there's a comprehensive PKI primer for both technical and nontechnical professionals. IBM security expert Messaoud Benantar delivers the in-depth guidance developers and managers need to make PKI work, including coverage of important related topics such as ASN.1 and PKCS. From start to finish, Benantar focuses on getting results—and on answering your most critical questions about PKI deployment, operation, and administration. Coverage includes:

• The fundamentals of secret and public key cryptography
• The challenge of key distribution, and the central role of public key assurance systems
• Using PKIX to build secure Internet systems
• Understanding the PKIX notational language, data encoding scheme, and topology
• Implementing effective PKI trust models
• Using LDAP as an Internet repository for PKIX
• Certificate validation, credentials management, and key rollover issues

Benantar's detailed real-world scenarios give developers, administrators, and decision-makers unprecedented insight for deploying effective PKI/PKIX systems. If you plan to use these breakthrough Internet security technologies, there's no better resource.

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