5. Implementing a PKI

Implementing a complete key management infrastructure is a major undertaking. Describing all the tasks involved is beyond the scope of this article; the book by J.G. DUMAS et al. provides a detailed review of the processes in its chapter "Services regulatory framework, certification policy and deployment". The description below is only a rough outline of the tasks involved.

We will consider two cases:

1. Do we want to implement all the services of a PKI for our own...