Tumbleweed and PKI
- By Brad Grimes
- Mar 29, 2006
The Federal Public-key Infrastructure Policy Authority's Path Discovery and Validation working group recently qualified the Tumbleweed Validation Authority and Desktop Validator products for agencies that need real-time digital certificate validation in a Federal Bridge-enabled environment.
Tumbleweed Communications Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., joins just three other companies that have had solutions approved by the GSA-chaired group (see
www.cio.gov/fbca/validation_solutions.htm).
The government created the Federal Bridge Certificate Authority so federal agencies could request and perform cross-certification with other PKIs. For this to work, each agency must implement a path discovery and validation solution for locating certificate chains of trust and determining the validity and status of the relationships.