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)