United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-02-26 monographic deposited born digital 82 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-277 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277 P0b002ee1803920dc f:d01277 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277 GAO-01-277 Information technology Computer networks Computer security Electronic government Information resources management Data encryption Electronic signatures Interagency relations Strategic information systems planning Chapter Report The federal government must overcome several major challenges before public key infrastructure (PKI) technology can be widely and effectively used. These challenges include providing interoperability among agency PKIs, ensuring that PKI implementations can support a potential large scale of users, reducing the cost of building PKI systems, setting policies to maintain trust levels among agencies, and establishing training programs for users at all levels. Although such challenges are difficult to overcome in the near term, the federal government can take steps to better assist agencies at developing and implementing PKIs that may eventually be interconnected into a federal governmentwide system. The recent effort to develop a Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA) is an excellent first step in this direction, but this effort lacks the context of a well-defined program plan for the government as well as key policy and technical standards. Establishing a federal PKI management framework could facilitate and accelerate participation in the FBCA as well as overall federal adoption of key technology for enabling electronic government. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277.pdf GAO-01-277 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-277 Chapter Report GAO-01-277; Information Security: Advances and Remaining Challenges to; Information technology Computer networks Computer security Electronic government Information resources management Data encryption Electronic signatures Interagency relations Strategic information systems planning Public Law 105-277 Public Law 106-229