Title :
Good practices for Long-Term Key Management in a Public Key Infrastructure
Author :
Carlos, Marcelo Carlomagno ; Custodio, Ricardo Felipe ; Sutil, JeandréMonteiro
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Seguranca em Comput., Univ. Fed. de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis
Abstract :
Optimal PKI life cycle management depends directly on the strategy to deal with the update and replacement of CA certificates and CA private keys. To reach optimal strategy, it is necessary to develop methods that the replacement is executed to match the specific needs of each PKI. Only one strategy is defined in RFC 4210, but real PKIs need a variety of different strategies. This paper classifies these strategies and presents the corresponding procedures to replace certificates and private keys.
Keywords :
public key cryptography; RFC 4210; long-term key management; optimal life cycle management; public key infrastructure; Certification; Communication system operations and management; Computer security; Conference management; Conferences; Engineering management; Government; Proposals; Public key; Public key cryptography; CA update; PKI; certificate update; certification authority; key pair update;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Science and Engineering Workshops, 2008. CSEWORKSHOPS '08. 11th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Paulo
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3257-8
DOI :
10.1109/CSEW.2008.51
