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Public Key Infrastructure - Technology or Hype?
From:Joe Klemmer
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:07:31 -0400

Public Key Infrastructure - Technology or Hype?
Author: ArticSoft
Published: Thursday, 09 September 2004 10:46 GMT

PKI has been getting a lot of bad press of late, but is it justified?
Has the technology failed or is it a problem of implementation? First it
is important to distinguish between public key cryptography (as
discovered by Rivest, Shamir and Adelman, or Clifford Cocks) and PKI or
public key infrastructure.

http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=261