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I’ve written a bit on this blog previously in an attempt to demystify public key infrastructure<\/a> (PKI) but a fellow contributor to the Microsoft Industry Insiders blog<\/a>, Adrian Beasley, has written an extensive article entitled make sense of public key infrastructure<\/a>, which could be very useful for anyone trying to get their head around the subject.<\/p>\n

As Steve Lamb<\/a> pointed out when introducing Adrian’s article, he has tried to “keep very distinct the technology – asymmetric cryptography – which makes the whole thing possible, and the administrative process – PKI and all the rest – which controls it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written a bit on this blog previously in an attempt to demystify public key infrastructure (PKI) but a fellow contributor to the Microsoft Industry Insiders blog, Adrian Beasley, has written an extensive article entitled make sense of public key infrastructure, which could be very useful for anyone trying to get their head around the … Continue reading Making sense of public key infrastructure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"\nMaking sense of public key infrastructure - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/making-sense-of-public-key.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making sense of public key infrastructure - 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