PKI
What is PKI?
Public Key Infrastructure, a framework of policies, hardware, software, and procedures for creating, managing, distributing, and revoking digital certificates and encryption keys.
Terms that appear alongside pki
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as pki. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 8 shared controls
- authentication 8 shared controls
- tls 7 shared controls
- ipsec 6 shared controls
- post quantum cryptography 5 shared controls
- zero trust 4 shared controls
- key management 4 shared controls
- iso 27001 4 shared controls
Frameworks that govern pki
What the standards actually require on pki
Requirements naming pki across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Implement Access Control + Cryptography + Network and Infrastructure Security per MAS TRM Chapters 9 + 10. Chapter 9 Access Control + Cryptography - access control policy + user identification + authentication (Multi-Factor Authentication MFA required for priv...
MAS-TRM-Access-Cryptography-Network-Security-Chapters-9-10-MFA-PKI-Encryption-Network-Segmentation · MAS TRM Access Control + Cryptography + Network + Chapters 9-10 + MFA + PKI + Encryption + Network Segmentation →Generates and logs certificates issued by the enterprise to resources, subjects, services, and applications.
SP800-207-SUP-PKI · Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) →Implement cryptography + protocol security + PKI per O-RAN WG11 Security Requirements covering TLS + SSH + IPsec + certificate lifecycle.
ORANWG11-3 · Cryptography, TLS, SSH, IPsec, and PKI Lifecycle Management →Security Dimension 2 Authentication per X.805 Clause 6.2: Authentication ensures the validity of the claimed identities of the entities participating in communication (e.g.
X805-Dim2-Authentication-Identity-Verification-Claimed-Identities-Entities-Communication · ITU-T X.805 Security Dimension 2 - Authentication + Identity Verification + Claimed Identity + Entity Authentication + Data Origin Authentication + Mutual Authentication + Multi-Factor + Cryptographic Authentication →Deploy FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules (NIST CMVP) supporting ML-KEM + ML-DSA + SLH-DSA. Test against NIST CAVP (Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program) test vectors.
PQC-7 · FIPS Validated Modules, HSM Readiness, and Algorithm Validation →Require phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for users, integrated with the enterprise IdP and PKI.
DODZT-1.3 · Multi-Factor Authentication →Questions people ask about pki
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