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Subject: Enterprise PKI - At the X-road
Dear List, There are indeed some recognized hurdles to PKI deployment. However, there also are some very serious obstacles that most PKI advocates seem to be unaware of: - Assume that you are working for a large organization - Assume that this organization has an internal purchasing system holding a local product catalog - Assume that this system authenticates users as well as checking limits etc. (that's why you have enterprise systems) - Assume that it is time to order some stuff from an external supplier Question: How would such a purchasing system be able to carry out its message creation, monitoring, archiving, and control tasks if you use a true end-to-end encryption model? Answer: It cannot. =============================================== That is, the enterprise PKI model is incompatible with essentially every business process and system used by the private sector. =============================================== But there is no reason to despair, the private sector have already an architecture in place since decades back that is very easy to augment with PKI. For a reasonably complete description on how to make business systems use PKI, please take a peek at the following recently upgraded document: http://w1.181.telia.com/~u18116613/pki4org.pdf Best Anders R
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