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5. Implementing a PKI
Implementing a complete key management infrastructure is a major undertaking. Describing all the tasks involved is beyond the scope of this article; the book by J.G. DUMAS et al. provides a detailed review of the processes in its chapter "Services regulatory framework, certification policy and deployment". The description below is only a rough outline of the tasks involved.
We will consider two cases:
Do we want to implement all the services of a PKI for our own company? This has a significant cost, which is only within the reach of a large company or a CSP;
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Bibliography
References
Standards and norms
- Information Technology – Open systems interconnection – The directory: general framework for public key and attribute certificates - ITU Rec. X.509 - 2016
- Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – The Directory – Part 8: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks - ISO/IEC 9594-8 - 2-2017
- Secure Hash Standard (SHS) - FIPS PUB 180 - 4(2015)
- Data Encryption Standard (DES) - FIPS...
Regulations
Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures (OJ L. 13, 19 January 2000, pp. 12-20).
Law no. 2000-230 of March 13, 2000 adapting the law of evidence to information technologies and relating to electronic signatures (JO no. 62 of March 14, 2000). Replaced by Ordinance n° 2016-131.
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Organizations
Internet Engineering Task Force
Virtual Private Network Consortium (VPNC)
French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry
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