NIST hosted this workshop to focus on technical and administrative efforts to increase trust online by improving the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate marketplace supporting Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS). The workshop provides an opportunity for industry, research and academia communities, and government sectors, to review, promote and move toward consensus on emerging industry standards and guidelines and to learn about NIST's current cryptographic research, activities, programs and standards development.
Topics expected to be covered in the workshop include: