1. Inter-institutional Trust Fabric Overview and Synergies
EDUCAUSE Dartmouth
PKI Deployment Summit
7/26/2005
Presented by: Mark Franklin
Dartmouth College PKI Lab

2. Goals
Provide robust mechanisms to enable institutions to trust each other’s credentials:
Policies and policy mapping
Well established levels of assurance
Online services (CRLs, directories)
Certificate signing services

3. Proposed Inter-federations CA-2 CA-1 CA-n Wisconsin FBCA Dartmouth
Cross-cert
Texas
HEBCA
DST
ACES
NIH
UVA
Cross-certs
Univ-N
USHER
Aero
SAFE
CA-4
CA-1
CA-2
CA-3

4. HEBCA/USHER Synergy
HEBCA (EDUCAUSE) and USHER (Internet2) cooperating to minimize costs and time to production
All parties have agreed, contracts in the works
Sharing (to the greatest extent possible):
Policy and processes
Staff
Servers
Software and implementation
Both hosted at Dartmouth