PKI

Public-Key Infrastructure

Useful for doing business with someone you don't know, or don't already have a digital signature for.

• Uses certificates

  • Certificate is a standardized file containing a public key and digital signature from a trusted 3rd party.
  • SSL certificates are an example of this.
  • Root certificate authorities sign a cert or create an intermediary cert
    • Comodo, Symantec, GoDaddy are examples

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure

Private PKI

CFSSL

• https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-build-your-own-public-key-infrastructure/
• https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl#readme

Private PKI Tutorial

• https://pki-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/simple/