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Any cryptography system requires some way to manage certificate request and retrieval. The old approach was to do this via browser mechanisms. There were some serious security issues with this, and not all cryptographic systems use browsers. There are several certificate management protocols to address this issue. With a good certificate management protocol, it is possible to fully automate certificate management. For example, I created a way for an Outlook E-mail client to request a certificate from a CA, retrieve it, and install it for use in Outlook. It also built a shared address book in Active Directory and optionally provide private key escrow. This vastly simplifies deployment of secure e-mail.
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Hughes, L.E. (2022). Certificate Management Protocols. In: Pro Active Directory Certificate Services. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7486-6_9
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