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Introduction to Public Key Infrastructures

Introduction to Public Key Infrastructures

Buchmann, Johannes A.
Karatsiolis, Evangelos
Wiesmaier, Alexander

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General ComputersComputer Security

ISBN10: 3662524503
ISBN13: 9783662524503
Publisher: Springer
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The introduction of public key cryptography (PKC) was a critical advance in IT security. In contrast to symmetric key cryptography, it enables confidential communication between entities in open networks, in particular the Internet, without prior contact. Beyond this PKC also enables protection techniques that have no analogue in traditional cryptography, most importantly digital signatures which for example support Internet security by authenticating software downloads and updates. Although PKC does not require the confidential exchange of secret keys, proper management of the private and public keys used in PKC is still of vital importance: the private keys must remain private, and the public keys must be verifiably authentic. So understanding so-called public key infrastructures (PKIs) that manage key pairs is at least as important as studying the ingenious mathematical ideas underlying PKC.

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