GLOSSARYPublic Key Infrastructure (PKI)
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is an established framework for managing, distributing, and awarding/revoking digital certificates.
What is a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)?
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is an established framework for managing, distributing, and awarding/revoking digital certificates.
Through PKI, each digital certificate comes with two keys: a public key and a private key. The private key is linked to an entity’s identity and the public key is used to verify that identity. Many organizations rely on PKI to ensure cryptographic security, issuing and governing digital certificates that confirm the identity of people, devices or applications. By assigning identities to the keys, PKI gives users the confirmation required that who they’re interacting with is indeed the intended recipient.
In an age where digital fraud is on the rise, verification methods that use PKI are increasingly effective in authenticating the parties involved with everything from emails to legal documents.
