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About Us
This
is the Outreach web for Dartmouth's
PKI Lab.
Dartmouth College with support from the Mellon Foundation is
working to develop use of Public Key Infrastructure in Academic
Computing. There are many potential applications for PKI in an academic
setting. There are also many obstacles to be overcome in order to
provide PKI based services broadly in the standard network computing
environment. This project is addressing these issues with a dual
approach. A deployment track, lead by Computing Services, is working to
simplify the use of current X.509 PKI technology and to develop usable
applications of it that address current security concerns. A design
track, lead by Computer Science is examining limitations of the
technology and working to develop solutions to the problems uncovered.
The design track plans to implement a more secure infrastructure by
incorporating secure co-processing technology in the services. Alternate
formulations of PKI technology are also being examined.
- Sean W. Smith (Design Team) -
sws@cs.dartmouth.edu
- Robert J. Brentrup (Deployment Team) -
Robert.J.Brentrup@Dartmouth.edu
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