Rcently, the Internet has been spread all over the world and it has used to be an infrastructure of e-commerce. However, there are several security problems on networks.The Public Key Infrastructure or PKI was initially developed in 1977 ,and it is powerful and widely use technology and can be considered as a good solution to the Internet security problems,however Most consumers didn't realized it, even when using it .
What is PKI?
IT is a set of hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates which shows identity of each domain.In other word PKI respective user identities by means of a certificate authority (CA).The primary role of the CA is to publish the key bound to a given user. In fact CA is an entity that issues digital certificates for use by other parties .
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I was keen to learn about this important concept and have read many articles so far. After reading this article I wanted to know in depth detail of certificate authority.
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