The documents included in zipped form are the initial
baseline releases of the technical documents developed by
the Federal PKI Technical Working Group.  In general, they
are technical recommendations that are intended to describe
a cohereant Federal PKI.  They are all drafts subject to
change.

Documents of the form xxxwd.zip, are Word 6.0 format
documents.  Documents of the form xxxwp.zip
documents are in Word Perfect 6.0 or 6.1 format.  The
documents are:

req5wp.zip - TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

tspolwp.zip - TECHNICAL POLICY

con14wd.zip - CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS, which describes the
overall concept of operation of the FPKI and details a
approach to using certificate extensions for X.509 v3
certificates to facilitate hierarchical management of the
Federal PKI, while allowing liberal cross-certification  by
the lowest (hierarchical) level of Certification Authorities
(CA).  This approach supports certificate verification
strategies that work from a root CA, or that

crosswd.zip - INTEROPERABILITY PROFILES, which describes in
some detail the recommended approach to interoperation with
other PKIs, which may use other cryptography.

fordwd.zip - A report by Warwick Ford on the structure of the
FPKI.  It recommends a less hierarchical structure that
takes advantage of the X.509 V3 certificate extensions to
allow cert. Path verification strategies based upon the
public key of  the verifier's local CA, rather than the Root
CA, as well as those based on the public key of the root CA.
The CONOPS was influenced by this document.