A SURVEY OF PKI ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

PKI architecture is base of e-business security in an insecure Internet environment for a geographically distributed organization. Choosing an adequate PKI architecture is a real challenge. Each PKI architecture has its advantages and disadvantages which should be taken into consideration before choosing the one. Therefore, authors in this paper give description and comparative analysis of the basic PKI architectures. This analysis has two aspects: first, comparison of advantages and disadvantages , and second, aspect of parameters chosen by the authors. Chosen parameters are: trust, certification path, scalability, flexibility and failure.