The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...
IN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT Web services security, a large elephant enters the room: Public Key Infrastructure. PKI is a foundation of the trust services to which the SAML (Security Assertions Markup ...
This book excerpt is from Chapter 6 “Certificates and Certifications” of the newly released Understanding PKI, Second Edition: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations. It is posted with ...