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Who Provides the Infrastructure?

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Who Provides the Infrastructure?

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A number of products are offered that enable a company or group of companies to implement a PKI. The acceleration of e-commerce and business-to-business commerce over the Internet has increased the demand for PKI solutions. Related ideas are the virtual private network (VPN) and the IP Security (IPsec) standard. Among PKI leaders are: -RSA, which has developed the main algorithms used by PKI vendors Verisign, which acts as a certificate authority and sells software that allows a company to create its own certificate authorities -GTE CyberTrust, which provides a PKI implementation methodology and consultation service that it plans to vend to other companies for a fixed price -CheckPoint, which offers a product, VPN-1 Certificate Manager, that is based on the Netscape Directory Server -Xcert, whose Web Sentry product that checks the revocation status of certificates on a server, using the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) -Netscape, whose Directory Server product is said to suppo