Key Management Infrastructure (KMI)
Abstract
Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) provides an integrated, operational environment that brings essential key management personnel and functions in-band. KMI achieves an over the network keying (OTNK) management solution to support emerging cryptographically modernized systems. The KMI client nodes are the Army's subset of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) KMI System supporting Department of Defense (DoD) Global Information Grid (GIG) Net Centric and Crypto Modernization Initiatives. The Mission Planning/ Mission Support System (MP/MSS) Interface for KMI will create a secure and highly automated interface to enable transparent provisioning of KMI products. The interface shall facilitate transparent communications between MP/MSS and KMI to achieve integration by bridging the gap between provisioning services and the communications net plan of the WarFighter. Updates relative to Key Management requirements to the MP/MSS Interface Specification and additional capabilities for the interface are scheduled to begin in FY2014. The MP/MSS Interface Specification defines the interface between the KMI Management Client Node (MGC) and the Mission Planning System operating on the Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET). This interface definition covers the key ordering, management and distribution transactions that were decomposed based upon an Army Mission Planning System collaborating with KMI to fulfill mission requirements in a highly automated manner. Additional MP/MSS capabilities projected to be developed include 1) registration of MP/MSS identities, 2) validations required for digital signature based on KMI and other medium assurance Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), 3) allowing the exchange of an electronic equivalent of a signed SF-153 (Hand Receipt, Destruction, Inventory, etc) and 4) integrating MP/MSS Application Program Interface (API) into the Army Mission Planner - Joint Tactical Network Environment NetOps Toolkit (JTNT).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- DV4_0303140A_7_2040_PB_2014
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