After five years of work, the General Services Administration's Federal Bridge Certification Authority has made the public-key infrastructures of four agencies interoperable. For the first time in history, federal agencies will accept each other's digital certificates through the bridge. . .
After five years of work, the General Services Administration's Federal Bridge Certification Authority has made the public-key infrastructures of four agencies interoperable. For the first time in history, federal agencies will accept each other's digital certificates through the bridge
. "That is where the rubber meets the road," said Judith Spencer, chairwoman of the Federal PKI Steering Committee. "They can communicate in a trusted fashion, verify each other's credentials in different trusted domains."
The bridge, part of the PKI Steering Committee and the Federal PKI Policy Authority, is a collection of hardware, software, policies and procedures that help make federal PKIs interoperable.
The link for this article located at GCN is no longer available.