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Public Key Infrastructure
Public Key Infrastructure
is abbreviated with PKI.
PKI is a system that allows to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke
public key certificates
.
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RFC 2585
registered two MIME types
used for transfering certificates and CRLs:
application/pkix-cert
application/pkix-crl
PKIX
As per RFC 2527, PKIX is an acronym for
Public Key Infrastructure (X.509)
(which is an IETF working group).
Documents
produced by the PKIX.
The most significant usage of PKIX certificates is the authentication of domain names (= Domain Validation (DV) certificates).
See also
public key
/etc/pki/ca-trust
~/.pki
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