Options analysis of the Canadian forces public key infrastructure

Author

DePlanché, D.E. ; Knight, G.S. ; Rahman, M.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., R. Mil. Coll. of Canada, Kingston, Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

851

Abstract

A public key infrastructure (PKI) provides security services such as confidentiality, authentication, and nonrepudiation for communications protocols. SSL, IPsec and S/MIME use certificates provided by a PKI for real-time secure messaging, the essential service for electronic transactions. While it is a relatively straight-forward exercise to build a PKI on a LAN, this paper examines the issues associated with the more complicated PKI deployment on the Canadian forces´ Defence Wide Area Network (DWAN)

Keywords

electronic messaging; message authentication; military communication; military computing; protocols; public key cryptography; wide area networks; Canadian forces; DWAN; Defence Wide Area Network; IPsec; LAN; MAN; S/MIME; SSL; authentication; certificates; communications protocols; confidentiality; electronic transactions; nonrepudiation; options analysis; public key infrastructure; real-time secure messaging; security services; Costs; Digital signatures; Educational institutions; Local area networks; Military communication; Military computing; Public key; Public key cryptography; Telecommunication traffic; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2000 Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Halifax, NS

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5957-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2000.849586

Filename

849586