Global PKI Interoperability: Korean Endeavour

Digital Signature Act has been put into force since July 1999 to prepare a Infrastructure of secure and reliable electronic transaction in Korea. Korea Information Security Agency is the Root Certification Authority, which has four Licensed Certification Authorities subordinately, as of August 2001, approximately 900,000 certificates has been issued to be used in the area of internet banking, electronic Procurement, Secure E-mail, and etc. Use of digital signature in Korea henceforward is expected to be increased rapidly based on its trend. Moreover, for activation of global electronic commerce, use of digital signature within domestic or intra-domain should be expanded to international or inter-domain. Korea has promoting international PKI interoperability between different domains following this timely trend of requirement since early 2000. Particularly, Korea is promoting PKI interoperability experiment among Korea, Japan, and Singapore. This paper explains systematic promotion structure and current status of these in Korea.