Getting Started with PKI

Current Trends in IT - Security – Pragmatic Approaches

Early PKI projects fell short in getting the critical mass of users subscribed because they were too expensive and to ambigious. Now, beyond the hype, there is a demand for improvement of security step by step rather than for big projects. Now, linking up existing PKI-islands, using S/MIME, introducing single sign-on and rising awareness are hot topics. Our vision, however, remains a globally a...

RSA-Based Auto-recoverable Cryptosystems

The deployment of a “public-key infrastructure” (PKI) has recently started. Another recent concern in business and on the national level is the issue of escrowed encryption, key recovery, and emergency access to information (e.g., in the medical record area). Independent development of a PKI and an escrowed PKI (whenever required or desired) will pose a lot of constraints, duplication efforts a...

Critical Review of B2B Commerce PKI Trust Topologies

As more and more companies conduct business with each other over the Internet, interoperable trust frameworks become important. For many businesses, trust provision is a critical issue in commencing B2B commerce transactional services. Communication over the Internet is by default open and uncontrolled and conflicts with the business needs of digital business. Privacy, confidentiality and integ...

Getting Started with Sequencel

Getting Started with Ecclesiastes: Coming to Grips with Mortality

Getting Started with Ecclesiastes: Coming to Grips with Mortality Dr. Elaine Phillips, © 2013 Introduction Ecclesiastes presents the reader with alternately disturbing and oddly reassuring realities. While scholars differ as to whether these views are a comfortable fit with “orthodoxy” and debate how to label and understand the various attitudes expressed, Ecclesiastes unquestionably speaks to ...