Public Key Infrastructure: Third European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2006, Turin, Italy, June 19-20, 2006, Proceedings

Today, PKIs have come of age and they support the security of several large networked systems, such as company—wide document management systems,— governmentapplicationsandsecureVPN.However,despitethissuccess,the field has not yet reachedits full scientific maturity and there is still room for research in this area. For example, open issues exist in the efficient management of large PKI (especially with respect to certi?cate validation), better performance could be attained by improved crypt...