Course Contents

• Overview of Indian IT Act 2000, Overview of Cryptography, Mathematical Background, Block Ciphers and Hashing Functions, Public Key Algorithms, PKI Concepts and Technologies, PKI Standards, Authentication Schemes, PKI Issues and Risks, PKI Policies, Case Studies, RCAI & CA, Demo (in-depth hands-on sessions as part of demos).
• Designing a Certification Authority Hierarchy, Creating a Certification Authority Hierarchy, Managing a Public Key Infrastructure, Configuring Certificate Templates, Configuring Certificate Enrollment, Configuring Key Archival and Recovery, Configuring Trust Between Organizations, Deploying Smart Cards, Securing Web Traffic by Using SSL, Configuring E-mail Security, Developing Applications for PKI and Digital Signatures in C/C++/Java/PHP.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe PKI and the major components of a PKI.
• Design a certification authority (CA) hierarchy to meet business requirements.
• Install Certificate Services to create a CA hierarchy.
• Perform certificate management tasks, CA management tasks, and plan for disaster recovery of Certificate Services.
• Create and publish a certificate template, and replace an existing certificate template.
• Enroll a certificate manually, auto-enroll a certificate, and enroll a smart card certificate.
• Implement manual and automatic key archival and recovery.
• Configure trust between organizations by configuring and implementing qualified subordination.
• Deploy smart cards for logon.
• Secure a Web environment by implementing SSL security and certificate-based authentication for Web applications.
• Implement secure e-mail messages.
• Write PKI / Digital Signature related applications in programming language of their choice.