Windows Server 2003 Security Infrastructures: Core Security Features (HP Technologies)

Trust is a fundamental concept of PKI. This chapter illustrated how the enhanced trust features of Windows Server 2003 PKI make Windows PKI both more powerful and flexible. Of course, all of this adds more complexity to PKI trust design and administration. This chapter also showed the richness of PKI when it comes to trust definition—no other security protocol or technology available today can define trust in such a granular way.