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SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 07-08/2024

ETCS PKI PoC – a test environment for all the operating variants of a European PKI infrastructure

August 2024 | Johannes Häring, Tobias Wothge, Richard Poschinger, Ernst Kleine, Johannes Küber

T o enable European rail traffic, the secure exchange of ETCS keys between Key Management Centers (KMC) is required. A simulation environment was developed for this purpose that enables an interactive comparison of different PKI (P ublic Key Infrastructure) architectures. The realised technical implementation is based on open standards and is highly automatable.

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