A Solution to Open Standard of PKI

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is fundamental for many security applications on the network. However, there are so many different kinds of PKI at current stage and they are not compatible. To solve the problem, we propose to implement the authority of authentication verification service systems as personal autonomous software agents, called security agents. In this paper, we introduce its concept and architecture, as well as its communication language, which is needed for public key management and secure communications among security agents and application agents. Keywords: security, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), authentication, agent architecture, KQML, interoperability. 1 Introduction It is well known that the integrity of public key vitally determines the whole security of communication, especially electronic transactions on the network. So different kinds of Public Key infrastructures (PKI) [1] are designed and their implementations are currently evolving. The examples inclu..