• PKI related projects and services in Europe
• Other projects worldwide related to PKI deployment
• Information resources on PKI and related issues - RFCs, I-Ds, mailing lists, etc.
• Tools and Software for PKI/CA based Internet applications

PKI related projects and services

The OpenCA Project
The OpenCA project is a collaborative effort to develop a full featured interfaces structure for currently available security-related and administrative toolkit developed for managing x509 digital certificates common operations (i.e. admission, verify, revocation, suspension, etc.). The project will therefore cover various aspects of administrative solutions in managing digital certificates and will be using many different software today available among the Open Source community.
The project development is divided in two main tasks: studying and refining the security scheme that guarantees the best model to be used in a CA and developing software to easily setup and manage a Certification Authority.
The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenCA tookit and its related documentation.

PKI issues in Internet2 Middleware Initiative

• Certificates and PKI
• Higher Education PKI (HEPKI) Activity Groups
• Internet2 PKI Labs - http://middleware.internet2.edu/pkilabs/
• Draft Research Agenda on PKI
• Dartmouth PKI Lab - http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/research/pkilab/
• Wisconsin PKI Lab -  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/pkilab/
• Authentication
• Shibboleth Web authentication and authorization project
• Authorization

Other Projects

• UK Government Communications-Electronics Security Group
• USA Federal PKI Technical Working Group, ACES
• NIST PKI Program

NIST is currently concentrating on PKI architectures, security requirements for PKI components, and PKI-enabled applications. The PKI architecture work is divided between development of complex PKIs based on the bridge CA concept and theoretical modeling of PKI performance. The goal of NIST's security requirements work is a Common Criteria Protection Profile. NIST is also pursuing XML digital signatures using PKI to verify the identity of the signer.CDSA - Common Data Security Architecture - Intel's cross-platform open source library for X.509, SPKI, smartcards, etc.
• Computer Security Resource Center
• Oscar - Public Key Infrastructure Project at Distributed System Technology Center (DSTC)
• Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) - formed by Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft.

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