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PKI and digital certificates
From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 3 Security Architecture and Engineering
PKI and digital certificates
- [Instructor] The public key infrastructure, or PKI, solves many of the practical issues associated with the web of trust by introducing the concept of certificate authorities. Instead of relying upon the peer to peer trust relationships that Zimmermann proposed in the web of trust model, the public key infrastructure relies upon the trust that participants have in highly trusted centralized service providers. These providers, known as certificate authorities, form the basis of the public key infrastructure. Certificate authorities verify the identities of individuals and organizations, and then issue them digital certificates, vouching that the public key associated with that individual or organization actually belongs to them. The process that we use is fairly similar to the one used to issue government identification cards in the physical world. If you want to obtain a driver's license you go to your region's…
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Trust models2m 52s
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PKI and digital certificates4m 5s
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