Key Management Infrastructure (KMI)
Key Management Infrastructure (KMI): The framework and services that provide the generation, production, storage, protection, distribution, control, tracking,…
Definition
The framework and services that provide the generation, production, storage, protection, distribution, control, tracking, and destruction for all cryptographic keying material, symmetric keys as well as public keys and public key certificates.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
All parts – computer hardware, firmware, software, and other equipment and its documentation; facilities that house the equipment and related functions; and companion standards, policies, procedures, and doctrine that form the system that manages and supports the ordering and delivery of cryptographic material and related information products and services to users. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)