Public Key Infrastructures: A research agenda

Issue title: On IWAP'05

Guest editors: Jianying Zhou and Meng-Chow Kang

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Price, Geraint^{; *}

Affiliations: Information Security, Group Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Correspondence: [*] Information Security Group, Mathematics Department, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK. Tel.: +44 (0)1784 414 160; Fax: +44 (0)1784 430 766; E-mail: geraint.price@rhul.ac.uk.

Abstract: In this paper we categorise some of the challenges facing those building, deploying and using Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs). Our work is based on a series of in-depth interviews and analysis. The aim of the work in this paper is twofold: to present the conclusions drawn from work that is based on years of practical experience of those in the field; to analyse those conclusions in order to highlight research avenues that will answer the challenges raised by those in industry.

Keywords: Case study, certificate policies, regulation, interoperability

DOI: 10.3233/JCS-2006-14502

Journal: Journal of Computer Security, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 391-417, 2006