Authentication Re-visited: How Public Key Infrastructure Could Yet Prosper
Roger Clarke · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2003
What are the nails for which public key technologies are supposed to be the hammer?This paper examines the kinds of assertions that e-business needs to be authenticated, and evaluates conventional and alternative public key infrastructures (PKI) against those requirements.It concludes that the root cause of the limited success enjoyed by public key technologies has been inadequate requirements analysis, and proposes how PKI can be re-conceived in order to meet the real needs of e-business..