Enhanced Public Key Infrastructure for Public e-Services in India

Abstract

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is enabling infrastructure that provides authentication processes, public-key cryptography, and digital signatures to ensure confidentiality, data integrity, authentication and non-repudiation. PKI offers these "trust and security" services by using distinctive components like Certificate Authority, Encryption key management, end-user encryption software tools for storing, renewing, and revoking digital keys and secure socket layer certificates. This paper will present an architectural model to provide pki as a service in India for e-governance to provide public services in a secure way by addressing several shortcomings of the current infrastructure and its proposed extensions.