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The Invisible Spine: The Role of Public Work in Modern Society Introduction

Business case

  1. The site shows its ID card (Certificate).
  2. Your computer checks the notary stamp on the ID card against its list of trusted notaries.
  3. If the stamp matches, the computer trusts the public key.

"Public Work"

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  • Request and Enrollment: Managing CSR (Certificate Signing Request) generation, either manually via OpenSSL or automated via protocols like SCEP (Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol) or EST (Enrollment over Secure Transport).
  • Validation: For public CAs, this includes domain validation (DV), organization validation (OV), or extended validation (EV). For private PKI, it involves internal policy checks.
  • Issuance and Deployment: Distributing issued certificates to servers, load balancers, containers, and endpoints.
  • Renewal and Replacement: The most time-consuming part of pubki work – tracking expiry dates and automating renewals to prevent outages.
  • Revocation: When a private key is compromised or an employee leaves, revoking the certificate and updating CRLs/OCSP.

6. Practical Use Cases (Where Pubki Shines)

4. Wildcard vs. Specific Certificates

Social Safety Net:

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  1. Shorten certificate lifetimes. Adopt 90-day or even 30-day validity for server certificates to limit exposure from compromised keys.
  2. Implement certificate transparency (CT) logging. For public certificates, monitor CT logs to detect rogue certificate issuance.
  3. Use separate CAs for different trust domains. Do not use the same internal CA for production, development, and employee Wi-Fi certificates.
  4. Audit key ceremonies. Any generation of a root CA key should require multi-person control, video recording, and signed logs.
  5. Automate renewal with pre-testing. Before automatically deploying a renewed certificate, test it in a staging environment that mirrors production.