PKI - Public Key Infrastructure


Web Sites
Designing a Public Key Infrastructure - Before you can use digital certificates you need to design a public key infrastructure, which involves planning configuration options for one or more certification authorities, preparing certificates to meet the needs of your organization, and creating a PKI management plan.

White Papers
Certificate Autoenrollment in Windows XP - With Windows XP it is possible to autoenroll certificates to users. This reduces the normally high costs of building and maintaining a PKI infrastructure. The entire life cycle of the certificates can be managed including enrollment, renewal and deletion of expired and revoked certificates. 46 pages.
Step-by-Step Guide to Administering Certificate Services - Nice introduction from Microsoft on Certificate Authorities. In this document you find simple practises where you install a stand-alone CA, do a backup and restore of it, issue certificates, revoke certificates and publish CRLs (Certificate Revocation Lists). 10 pages.
Step-by-Step Guide to Public Key Features of Outlook 2000 - If you want to send encrypted/signed mail with Outlook 2000 here's an explanation of the client side setup. 3 pages.
Windows XP Wireless Deployment Technology and Component Overview - This official Microsoft paper addresses Wireless technologies. It sums up the processes of connecting, authenticating and encrypting, and goes into different technologies such as RADIUS/IAS, EAP and certificates. 41 pages.