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The Siemens PKI, a global enterprise PKI with more than 200.000 users and 100.000 smart cards issued world-wide, was started in 1998/99. Deploying a PKI well-organized processes are a key success factor. Entering the second 3 years certificates life cycle in Siemens in 2002 managed re-keying via de-central Local Registration Authorities (LRAs) turned out to be very difficult and cost intensive.
“PKI Self Services” provide web-based smart card and certificate life cycle functions allowing a user to manage the certificates on his/her smart card securely from the desktop without going to an LRA. The paper describes first the challenge, the solution and the business case. The last chapter covers the security and technical architecture of the implementation.
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Glaeser, Martin: Strategy and Implementation of a PKI Rollout in an International Company, ISSE 1999.
von der Heidt, Guido; Marhoefer, Michael; Oeser, Thomas: The Siemens PKI — Implementation and Evolution of a Large Scale Enterprise PKI, ISSE 2003.
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© 2004 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft/GWV Fachverlage GmbH,Wiesbaden
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von der Heidt, G. (2004). The Siemens PKI — Implementation of PKI Self Services. In: Securing Electronic Business Processes. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-84982-3_24
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