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Introduction

Under the auspices of His Excellency the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Engineer Mohamed Jamil Bin Ahmed Mulla, the National Center for Digital Certification (NCDC) will be hosting a workshop in Riyadh during the period 22-23 February,2011 on "PKI: Applications and Integration" .

The workshop aims at raising awareness and profiling applications and integration tools, services and solutions for public key infrastructure, and explaining how current application development be based on PKI. And the goal is to highlight the resulting benefit of PKI integration and to encourage government agencies and the private sector to develop existing applications or develop new applications based on PKI..

Workshop Topics
  • Purpose and objectives of PKI enablement of applications.
  • PKI functions used, and how they are benefiting the applications or business requirement.
  • Implications of E-Transactions Law and legal signing.
  • Use of PKI-based applications in e-Government applications.
  • Use and integration of private key media with applications.
  • Authentication tools using PKI certificates.
  • Digital signature applications using PKI certificates.
  • PKI-enabled application at NCDC.
  • Solution offerings by vendors for PKI enablement.
  • Case studies and success stories related to PKI-based applications.

Workshop Objectives
  • Raising the public awareness about PKI applications, services, and integration tools and solutions
  • Highlighting the resulting added security and the required changes to existing applications in order to utilize NCDC PKI infrastructure
  • Encouraging government agencies and the commercial sector to start developing PKI-enabled applications3