Emilia Rosti, A Performance Evaluation Study of an X.509 Compliant PKI (February 22, 2001)
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Dr. Emilia Rosti, University of Milan, Italy
A Performance Evaluation Study of an X.509 Compliant PKI
February 22, 2001

at the
Naval Postgraduate School
(http://www.nps.edu)

ABSTRACT
Dr. Emilia Rosti will present the results of a performance evaluation study that compares different architectures for PKI based on CRL and OCSP certificate revocation strategies. Variants with a time stamp authority and a logging authority are also considered. Estimates of the certificate population size the PKI can handle are provided. 

About Dr. Emilia Rosti
University of Milan, Italy 
Dr. Emilia Rosti is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Computer Science Department of the University of Milan, where she teaches computer organization. She received the "laurea" and the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1987 and 1993, respectively. She has spent several periods of time abroad collaborating with foreign academic institutions. Her main scientific interests are in computer and network security and performance evaluation of parallel and distributed systems. She served for one term on the Steering Committee of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, and she is the FIRST representative of CERT-IT, the Italian Computer Emergency Response Team. She is coauthor of various papers that have appeared in international journals and conferences.