Obstacles to PKI Deployment and Usage

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Obstacles to PKI Deployment and Usage
Conclusions Relevant to pki4ipsecSteve Hanna,
Co-chair, OASIS PKI TC
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OASIS PKI Technical Committee

• PKI customers, vendors, and experts
• Address issues related to successful deployment
  of digital certificates
• Plans
• Identify primary obstacles to PKI deployment and
  usage
• Develop PKI Action Plan to address these
  obstacles
• Coordinate implementation of PKI Action Plan
• OASIS PKI TC Role
• Catalyst and coordinator for addressing PKI
  obstacles
• Not a standards group or trade group

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Survey on PKI Obstacles

• Top Obstacles
• Software Applications Dont Support It
• Costs Too High
• PKI Poorly Understood
• Too Much Focus on Technology, Not Enough on Need
• Poor Interoperability

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Draft PKI Action Plan

• Develop specific application guidelines on PKI
  standards use
• Increase interoperability testing, possibly with
  branding and certification
• Ask application vendors what they need to provide
  PKI support
• Gather and/or enhance educational materials

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Conclusions for pki4ipsec

• pki4ipsec addresses important customer problems
• We need more efforts like this
• Customers want PKI to support multiple
  applications
• Dont do anything to impede that
• Comments on Draft PKI Action Plan welcome through
  December 31
• http//www.oasis-open.org/committees/pki