International Electrotechnical Commission
Glossary

ENPublic Key Infrastructure (PKI) 
A system of CAs (and, optionally, RAs and other supporting servers and agents) that perform some set of certificate management, archive management, key management, and token management functions for a community of users in an application of asymmetric cryptography.

NOTE Certificates may also be managed by other trusted groups such as the PGP web of trust.


TC/SC:57Terms     Info     Publications
Published in:IEC 62351-2, ed. 1.0 (2008-08) Terms     Info
Reference number:2.2.158
Source:RFC 2828

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