The Open-source PKI Book: A guide to PKIs and Open-source Implementations
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Chapter 5. PKI standards and specifications

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Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKIX)
Architecture for Public-Key Infrastructure (APKI)
The NIST Public Key Infrastructure Program

We describe available PKI-related standards and specifications and discuss the usability of each of them. Open standards and specifications are important to open-source PKIs, since they remove possible interoperability obstacles of closed-source implementations.

Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKIX)

PKIX is covered in Chapter 6.

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User/Server key generation and signing Architecture for Public-Key Infrastructure (APKI)