Digital certificates and public key infrastructure

Abstract

Digital certificates promise to provide the next major leap forward in authentication, and are in fact in use today to secure some e‐commerce transactions. The paper describes what digital certificates are, what they can be used for and what the state of this technology is at present; it also discusses the problems hindering wider deployment of certificates and what needs to be done for them to gain wider acceptance.

Citation

Robiette, A. (2001), "Digital certificates and public key infrastructure", VINE, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 42-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720010804014