The mission of the GTRI PKI Lab (PKIL) is to explore and promote Public Key Infrastructure technology. The PKIL provides a unique resource for vendor-independent analysis of pro-ducts, methods, and applications. This unique facility permits the development of secure architectures and the enhancement of security for existing applications to enable and empower them for success in the open network environment of e-commerce and e-government in the new millennium.

The capabilities of the PKIL span the entire spectrum of PKI related activities and research including components, policy and business is-sues, applications design and development, legacy system enablement, and testing, evaluation and assessment across the breadth of PKI issues and applications. The PKIL is an aggressive facilitator of PKI deployment. As an example, PKIL participates in the demonstration and testing activities of the Federal PKI initiative such as the Electronic Messaging Association’s Challenge effort. This is a critical demonstration of multi-vendor cross certification efforts that spans agencies, states, international boundaries, and application domains while maintaining vendor independence.

The State of Georgia initiatives address the government-to-government and government-to-public applications for state support requirements that include development of a PKI architecture to support a heterogeneous application environment, development of policy and technical frameworks for PKI, development of PKI-enabled government applications, PKI-enabling legacy applications, resolution of technical and operational issues through demonstrations and prototypes, and the development of a Bridge Certificate Authority for the State.

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