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Public Key Infrastructure: Using Self Generated Public and Private Key Pairs to communicate Without PKI

Sep.22, 2008 in Cryptography, Network Security, Security Tools

Can we use self generated Public and Private Keys to communicate without Public Key Infrastructure? Originally, you can use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) freeware to communicate freely. PGP freeware can be downloaded here: http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/ However, since they have recently taken down the freeware for the Windows platform, I’ll show you how to use another piece […]

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Public Key Infrastructure: Certificate Authority and Its Role in PKI: An Example

Aug.19, 2008 in Cryptography, Network Security

Public Key Infrastructure is also named PKI. What is the role of Certificate Authority in PKI? Before we talk on this, let’s discuss the term “trust”. The operation of Public Key Infrastructure strongly depends on “trust”.  And this is also related to the application of asymmetric cryptography technique. To illustrate this, let’s suppose Bob wants […]

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