3. Certificates and Key Management Infrastructure

3.1 Definition

A key management infrastructure (abbreviated to PKI) is an organized set of policies, procedures and components providing various types of services for managing the public keys of those involved in dematerialized exchanges. These services include: registration of certificate applications, certification, publication and storage of certificates . The corresponding English term is Public Key Infrastructure (PKI for short).

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Bibliography

References

(1) - LAMBERTERIE (I. de) - Les actes authentiques électroniques. - La documentation Française (2002).
(2) - - Procédures et politiques de certification de clés – - Commission Interministérielle pour la Sécurité...

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.

Decree...