CRYPTO CHOCOLATE

In this chapter I'll summarize a few common and not-so-common pitfalls that will surface in our dissertation... This is a term that we need to get to terms with, and fast. When we refer to PKI or Public Key infrastructure, what we really mean is a distribution medium for public keys, and a private-secret medium for generating private keys. Public keys can safely be distributed and lost, whereas private keys should remain as secret as possible... Just to clarify that a public key infrastructure doesn't just mean "public keys". These public keys must be generated secretly along with their private keys and distributed to a supporting network service which can acknowledge, and even, authenticate the validity of such a public key by stamping it within a public certificate. We use public keys for validating signatures on documents we receive (or our private key for signing documents we produce), and the public key is also used for ciphering data for a specific person (using both our..