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Key Takeaways

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

• a technology for authenticating users and devices in the digital world. The basic idea is to have one or more trusted parties digitally sign documents certifying that a particular cryptographic key belongs to a particular user or device. The key can then be used as an identity for the user in digital networks.

X.509 Standard

• machine-readable certificate format for the certificate documents.

Uses for PKI

• Secure Websites (HTTPS)
• Authenticating Users and Computers (SSH)
• Email Signing and Encryption (S/MIME)

Vocabulary

No new vocabulary

Conclusion

PKI is a very integral part of the security structure that we use in today's internet and is used for local enterprise networks for internal security.