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whitepaper Introduction to Encryption and Digital Signatures2001-02-24 University of Glasgow
  Encryption and digital signatures have potential uses in universities and colleges to improve the security and the confidence that may be placed on digital information exchange. Both are based on technologies which are collectively referred to as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This paper explains the basics of encryption, digital signatures and related concepts. It briefly describes a package called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) which delivers this technology to desktop computer and it gives example of situations within universities where such technologies might be employed easily and with more difficulty.

Tags: Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper Issues of Trust in Digital Signature Certificates0000-00-00 Australian Defence Force Academy
  Trust is an increasingly important concept on the Internet, especially for Electronic Commerce. There are a number of trust-models on the Internet providing authentication which attempt to achieve the maximum of trust with minimum of risks. These include: X.509 standard Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), other PKI such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) and a Simple Distributed Secure Infrastructure (SDSI). These models use public key encryption techniques, certificates, and digital signatures. A certificate is used as a trust-token between different parties on the Internet to tell others you are really who you say you are. This work is a survey of different existing trusted models, their certificates, their structures, ways of handling transitivity of trust and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL).

Tags: Authentication - Encryption, Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper Securing Your Apache Web Server with a thawte Digital Certificate2006-07-01 Thawte
  In this guide thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. The paper looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company, and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.

Tags: Authentication - Encryption, Security Administration, Authentication - Encryption, Authentication - Encryption, Authentication - Encryption, Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration, Server Platforms - OS, 		  
whitepaper PKI Policy Note2001-03-01 Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
  This PKI Note provides general information about PKI policy, the role that policy plays in a PKI and how that policy applies to both traditional and PKI-enabled business environments. It also addresses the documentation required to support a PKI policy, what is specified in a PKI policy, how a PKI policy can be managed, and outlines some high level issues regarding PKI policy. It is not intended to provide a detailed technical discussion of policy issues in PKI. (These may be found in the references listed on the last page.) The content of and approach to forming PKI policy is an evolving discipline, and there is much ongoing debate about it, especially as large PKI-based trust infrastructures begin to emerge. As a result, this paper is a positioning document rather then a definitive statement for policy makers.   
whitepaper PKI and VPNs: Enabling Security in an Increasingly Networked World0000-00-00 Allied Telesis
  This paper explores PKI technology, building a PKI, the business case for PKI. It also examines VPNs as the killer application for PKI. The IPSec protocol provides many of these same security features for a VPN connection at the network level. However, it is through the use of a PKI that the VPN becomes a truly scalable solution for extending network communications. PKI provides a means for centralized management of encryption keys and digital certificates to authenticate communicating parties. As a standards-based approach, PKI ensures the interoperability of your VPN solution. With a secure VPN solution using PKI, businesses exploit the full potential of the Internet in a secure and scalable manner. They position themselves to realize the rewards of having fully secure, interoperable telecommunications networks.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Intrusion - Tampering, 		  
whitepaper Seven Steps to Digital Signature Implementation2001-01-02 Gradkell Systems
  According to an Aberdeen Group market survey, 98% of the Global 2000 organizations will be using a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) before 2003 for business-to-business electronic commerce and Internet based financial applications. This explosive growth of public key infrastructure combined with recent “E-Sign” (Electronic Signature in Global and National Commerce Act) legislation and the increased awareness for tighter security for on-line transactions, are fueling the need for a manageable method of implementing digital signature technology in new and existing database applications.

Digital signatures are not a digitized or bit-map representation of a handwritten signature, but an association of a digital or numeric code with a set of electronic data. Implementing digital signatures in relational database applications presents a unique set of challenges.

When we talk about security technologies we typically think of encryption, authentication, authorization, access control, firewalls, intrusion detection, etc. These technologies focus on solving or preventing security problems related to the infrastructure upon which business applications run rather than the applications themselves. Occasionally, digital signatures are introduced but rarely at an application integration level. Instead, we see digital signatures, especially in the public key encryption and its associated infrastructure (PKI) environment, associated with the electronic signing of documents such as email messages, word processing documents, spreadsheets and data files.

Tags: E-commerce - E-Business, Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper Introduction to Public Key Cryptography0000-00-00 Verisign
  The solution to problems of identification, authentication, and privacy in computer-based systems lies in the field of cryptography. Because of the non-physical nature of the medium, traditional methods of physically marking the media with a seal or signature (for various business and legal purposes) are useless.   
whitepaper Step-by-Step Guide to Encrypting File System (EFS)2003-09-02 Microsoft
  This document provides sample procedures that demonstrate the end-user and administrative capabilities of the Encrypting File System (EFS) included with the Windows? 2000 operating system. EFS is based on public-key encryption and takes advantage of the CryptoAPI architecture in Windows 2000.

Tags: Desktop Client OS, 		  
whitepaper An Introduction to Cryptography and Digital Signatures2001-03-06 Entrust
  Public-key technology provides a variety of critical enabling capabilities for electronic business processes. Through encryption, public-key technology provides confidentiality and access control.
The concept of securing messages through cryptography has a long history. Indeed, Julius Caesar is credited with creating one of the earliest cryptographic systems to send military messages to his generals.

Tags: Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper A Public-Key Cryptographic Processor for RSA and ECC2004-07-05 Sun Microsystems
  This paper describes an extension to a general-purpose processor for accelerating public-key cryptosystems. Supported are the legacy cryptosystems RSA and DH as well as the newly emerging Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) system. As this paper will show, minimal extensions suffice to efficiently support these public-key cryptosystems. Due to its computational efficiency, ECC is emerging as an attractive alternative to traditional public-key cryptosystems such as RSA, DSA, and DH. More specifically, ECC offers equivalent security with smaller key sizes, in less computation time and with less memory.

Tags: Components, Security Administration		   

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