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Understanding the Federal Bridge and Its Role in PKI and E-Government Identity Assurance

This overview explores the Federal Bridge's significance in the public key infrastructure (PKI) domain, focusing on its role in e-government and secure electronic transactions. It highlights the necessity for robust identity assurance, facilitating trust among federal agencies and external parties. The Federal Bridge ensures interoperability for HSPD-12 credentials and serves as a source of high-assurance online security. It enables agencies to validate credentials, supports high-assurance authentication, and minimizes the administrative burden of cross-domain interactions.

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Understanding the Federal Bridge and Its Role in PKI and E-Government Identity Assurance

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  1. The Federal Bridge A Brief Overview

  2. SAFE HEBCA Industry PKIs Fed PKI: View from 20,000 km SSP Clones (PIV-I) Common Policy CA (HSPD-12) SSPs Serving all other Agencies FBCA CertiPath “SSP” (PIV-I) C4 CertiPath Industry PKIs SAFE “SSP” 4BF Industry Forum April 2009

  3. Why PKI? • E-Gov: government’s need for assured identity in electronic transactions with citizens, businesses, governments, itself; • Security: need for high level of identity assurance for secure access to online systems and services. 4BF Industry Forum April 2009

  4. Why A Bridge? • Allow trust among members at known levels of assurance of identity • Members continue to control their own domains and relationships (non-hierarchical) • Expand trust span easily and minimize administrative burdenand cost of cross-domain interoperability 4BF Industry Forum April 2009

  5. Federal Bridge Business Case • Source of interoperability for ALL Federal Agency HSPD-12 credentials (6.2 million and counting as of 3/2009) • Source of interoperability with non-federal high assurance credential providers • Primary author of master policies and methodologies (first among equals) 4BF Industry Forum April 2009

  6. Early Use Cases • Enable Agencies to validate each other’s PIV cards for physicalaccess • Validate desktop and network logins • Enable Agencies to validate PIV-Icredentials from external parties • Support high assurance authentication to Agency Level 3 – 4 applications from government and private sector credentials 4BF Industry Forum April 2009

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