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  • initialism Public Key Infrastructure. A computerised form of message encryption using two keys (small files); one is public and used by the sender to encrypt the message, the other is private and used by the recipient to decrypt the message.

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  • On 12 October 1964 [Aidit] answered a series of questions on the PKI and the Indonesian revolution with the unprecedented claim that "Among the world communist parties the PKI is the one that has the most authority to talk about the 'peaceful transition' toward socialism, because the PKI takes part in both the central and local governments and it has the actual potential to carry out its policies."

    What Happened in Indonesia? Anderson, Benedict R. 1978

  • In order to stall a military coup from an opposing party, the Communist Party (also known as the PKI) kidnapped some of the opposition's leaders.

    UCLA Stories 2009

  • BAM Interceptors ... interceptors monitor data and collect data identified as a PKI as data changes.

    dotnet.org.za 2008

  • We have something called PKI, Public Key Infrastructure.

    Press Briefing By John Podesta And Jack Lew ITY National Archives 2001

  • Attempts to set up South-Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation commissions surrounding the 1965 genocide have so far come to naught, and long after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the majority of its satellites, "PKI" still remains a powerful slander in Indonesian politics.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Attempts to set up South-Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation commissions surrounding the 1965 genocide have so far come to naught, and long after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the majority of its satellites, "PKI" still remains a powerful slander in Indonesian politics.

    Shadow play Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The CAS model utilizes open standard technologies for security such as PKI and SSL, as well as existing content protection technologies such as AES, ECC and 3DES.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Lessig on openDRM and Sun’s DReaM Concept 2006

  • EJBCA is an enterprise class PKI, meaning that you can use EJBCA to build a complete PKI infrastructure for your organization.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Plaintiff Bay Center LLC and defendant Emery Bay PKI, LLC ( "PKI") formed defendant Emery Bay Member LLC ( "Emery Bay") to develop a condominium project in California (the "Project").

    Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog 2009

  • Previously, users could easily turn on EFS, which generated a self-signed EFS digital certificate if a compatible PKI server could not be found.

    The InfoWorld expert guide to Windows 7 security Roger A. Grimes 2010

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