Description
TL;DR: A government case study of PKI components, smart identity cards, authentication, encryption, signatures, and electronic services.
About This Document
Ali M. Al-Khouri describes the public-key infrastructure supporting the United Arab Emirates national identity program. The paper introduces certificate authorities, digital certificates, smart-card applets, authentication, confidentiality, access control, non-repudiation, and data integrity, then connects those components to e-government and e-commerce services. It also notes that PKI projects can fail for operational as well as technical reasons.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
This is not a Bitcoin paper. It shows a centralized, identity-bound public-key system, which is almost the mirror image of Bitcoin's permissionless and pseudonymous use of signatures. Studying both makes the shared cryptographic vocabulary less misleading: keys and signatures can support radically different trust and identity architectures.
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Document Details
- Title: PKI Technology: A Government Experience
- Author / organization: Ali M. Al-Khouri
- Year: 2014
- Language: English
- Document type: Government technology case study
- Pages: 16
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