Describing a PKI framework
If you see a lock by the web address when making a transaction on the internet, as shown in the following screenshot, you can be confident the site is secure:
The lock represents trust, which means that when exchanging data with the website, your data is secure. A PKI verifies the identities of both parties so that they can encrypt and securely exchange information.
This trust is possible because of a PKI—a framework used to generate, manage, and distribute digital certificates.
A PKI framework helps to ensure data confidentiality and integrity and is essential for several applications, such as securing email and encrypting data transactions.
In this section, we'll see how a PKI ensures trust and allows us to securely exchange keys during a data transaction, along with some of the different components of a PKI. In...