Pandora's Box or Panacea?(PKI)(Technology Information)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  September, 2001  by Bragg, Roberta

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Public key infrastructure (PKI) technology is a supposed to key online transactions secure. The author argues that this is not always the case.

PKI's promise is to help make e-commerce transactions truly secure. But because it's built on a fragile underlying web of trust, be careful when implementing it in your enterprise.

Greek mythology says the first woman, Pandora, was endowed by the gods with all the graces and given a box full of all the world's bad things. Despite instructions, Pandora opened the box and set evil loose on the world.

Conversely, Panacea was the Greek ...

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