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PKI Policy Bodies and Other Authentication Frameworks

This section presents a number of large scale infrastructure initiatives, typically deployed by government or by vertical industry groups for the benefit of defined user groups, in order to provide technology and legal support for secure e-business programs.

	PKI Policy Bodies
	Authentication Frameworks (including PKI enabled National IDs)
	Related Security Policy Bodies, Interest Groups and Promotional Associations

PKI Policy Bodies

Around the world, numerous organizations have a variety of roles in creating or influencing PKI policy. Some of these are officially charged with setting or administerting PKI policy. Others are concerned with authentication more broadly.

Americas

US Federal PKI Steering Committee

US Federal Bridge CA

NIST Personal Identification Verification (PIV) Homepage

Access Certificates for Electronic Service (ACES)

US Government Smartcards - Homepage for all US government smartcard activities, including a database of rollout projects.

NASA PKI

US Dept of Defense PKI Homepage

Policy for Public Key Infrastructure Management in the Government of Canada

Europe, Middle East, & Africa

European Electronic Signature Standardisation Initiative

European Technology and Standards Institute (ETSI) Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures Technical Committee TC ESI

UK eEnvoy

Belgian National ID card and CA Certipost

Estonia National ID smartcard

BACSTEL-IP - a major IP based re-engineering of the UK banking clearance system, involving one or Europe's biggest PKIs to date.

Europe's biggest PKIs to date

Security pages - formerly the European CA Forum

Asia

Asia PKI Forum

China PKI Forum

Chinese Taipei PKI Forum

Hong Kong Recognition of CAs

Macao Post eSignTrust - the de facto national CA of Macau

New Zealand Authentication Framework - technology neutral, but New Sealand has significant government PKI systems too, see S.E.E.

New Zealand Secure Electronic Environment (S.E.E.) - a pioneering government PKI

Australian Government Gatekeeper - the regulatory body for Australian B2G users of PKI

Australian Government Authentication Framework

Hong Kong Smart ID Card

Taiwan IC National Health Insurance Card

New Queensland Driver License (Australia)

Medicare smartcard (Australia)

APEC eSecurity Task Group - the Telecommunications Working Group (TEL) of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) hosts an e-Security Task Group. The eSTG has been historically focused on PKI and e-authentication. The group meets twice a year and all committee papers are freely available on the web.

Private Sector PKI and related schemes

Identrus - the worldwide private PKI for the banking industry

Pan Asia Alliance - an association of commercial CAs in North Asia focused on PKI for securing international trade documentation

EMV - The Europay-MasterCard-Visa consortium develops and administers technology standards for credit cards worldwide, including the current initiative to transition from magnetic stripe to chip.

Chip & PIN - a nationwide rollout of smartcards for credit and debit in the UK, with 65 million card son issue at Nov 2004

Global Platform - a major smartcard platform standard.

Related Security Policy Bodies, Interest Groups and Promotional Associations

Identity Theft

Anti-Phishing Alliance

Privacy, Security & "Trust"

Liberty Alliance - developing federated identity standards

Trusted Computing Group

Shibboleth - single sign on software initiative

TeleTrusT - Non-profit organization for the promotion of trustworthiness of information and communication technology

International Security Trust & Privacy Alliance

Wireless Security

Radicchio - "Global Initiative for Wireless eCommerce"

Open Mobile Alliance