Bibliography

The followings are some known books that are helpful to get some comprehension of the Public Key Infrastructure, its concepts, application and deployment considerations as well as security concepts within the Java platform.

• Understanding PKI: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations, Second Edition
• Deploying a Public Key Infrastructure
• Introduction to Public Key technology and the federal PKI infrastructure
• PKI Security Solutions for the enterprise
• Enterprise Java Security: Building Secure J2EE Applications
• Inside Java 2 Platform Security - Architecture API, Design and Implementation
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 PKI and Certificate Security

RFCs

The RFCs below are the most important draft related to the X.509 Public Key Infrastructure.

• RFC 2510 - Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Protocols
• RFC 3280 - Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile

Web resources

• Windows 2000 Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI): Introduction
• Windows Server 2003 Public Key Infrastructure

For a very extensive list of internet resources related to Public-Key Infrastructure, you are invited to take a look at the pki-page.org